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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 09, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alan R Spievack, Cambridge, MA (US);
Douglas A Fogg, Merrimac, MA (US);
Christopher P Messina, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
General Orthopedics, Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606 60 ; 606 73 ; 606 72 ; 606 65 ; 604 93 ; 6048901 ; 604285 ;
Abstract
A bone fastener is adapted to deliver biologically active substances to a bone site. An applicator is saturated with the substance and is disposed within an inner cavity of the fastener, near the bone site. Channels through the body of the fastener permit the substance to flow to the bone site. The substance can include therapeutic drugs, such as antibiotics, analgesics, bone morphogenic proteins, DNA, chemotherapy drugs and angiogenesis factors.