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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Armin Studer, Winterthur, CH;
Cosimo Donno, Winterthur, CH;
Assignee:
Sulzer Orthopaedie AG, Baar, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/44 ;
Abstract
With the invention, tubular support bodies for bridging two adjacent vertebrae are shown. Two cages (,) which are placed one within the other are provided with cut-outs, and each of them has a support flange (,) at the outer end face (,). A first cage (,) has at least three radially projecting protrusions (,) at its jacket (,) which can be introduced into three axially extending lead-in channels (,) or a multiple thereof in the jacket (,) of the other cage (,) in order to be able to reach latch-in positions (,) of different depths.
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