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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2006
Reynaldo a Osorio, Daly City, CA (US);
Marialulu Follmer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Richard W Layne, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ryan P Boucher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karen D Talmadge, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joseph J Basista, Mountain View, CA (US);
Reynaldo A Osorio, Daly City, CA (US);
Marialulu Follmer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Richard W Layne, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ryan P Boucher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karen D Talmadge, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joseph J Basista, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kyphon Sarl, Neuchatel, CH;
Abstract
A percutaneous path is established into a selected bone having an interior volume occupied, at least in part, by a cancellous bone, e.g., a vertebral body. An expandable mesh structure is introduced into the cancellous bone by deployment of a tool through the percutaneous path into the cancellous bone. The expandable mesh structure is expanded within cancellous bone by conveying a material into the mesh structure. Expansion of the mesh structure can, e.g., compact cancellous bone, and/or form a cavity in cancellous bone, and/or move fractured cortical bone.