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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stephen Tatar, Montvale, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bones Consulting, LLC, Summit, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606 61 ;
Abstract
A polyaxial pedicle screw for use with rod implant apparatus includes a rod receiving body, a screw having a curvate head, a compression element, and a means for loosely and reversibly maintaining a coupled relationship between the compression element and the screw head during angulation thereof relative to the rod receiving body, while still permitting compressive locking of the assembly in a specific orientation by means of a compressive force applied by a rod onto the compression element and the head of the screw.
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