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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Franz Konstantin Fuss, Wiener Neustadt, AT;
Ronald J. Sabitzer, Vienna, AT;
Stephan Eckhof, Tuttlingen, DE;
Assignee:
Aesculap AG & Co. KG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/766 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/766 ;
Abstract
In order, in the case of a surgical instrument for introducing intervertebral implants into the intervertebral space between adjacent vertebral bodies, to facilitate the introduction of the intervertebral implant even when access is difficult, it is proposed that the surgical instrument comprises two mutually opposing guide bodies, which each have a guide directed towards the other guide body and together form between them a guideway, along which an intervertebral implant is insertable laterally into the intervertebral space.
Published as:
DE29901611U1; WO0044288A1; DE19903762C1; EP1146821A1; US2002045904A1; JP2002535066A; US6599294B2; EP1146821B1; ATE253325T1; ES2209811T3; JP3550094B2;