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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2004
Applicant:
Casey K. Lee, Florham Park, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Casey K. Lee, Florham Park, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61B 17/70 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A prosthetic implant for replacing a facet joint of a spinal motion segment includes a generally conical superior component adapted to be implanted at a surgically prepared site on a lower articular process of a cephalad vertebra of a spinal motion segment, and a cup-shaped inferior component adapted to be implanted at a surgically prepared site on a superior articular process of a caudad vertebra of the spinal motion segment.