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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2010
Laurent B. Schaller, Los Altos, CA (US);
David S. Needleman, San Carlos, CA (US);
James K. Lee, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jeffrey L. Emery, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Laurent B. Schaller, Los Altos, CA (US);
David S. Needleman, San Carlos, CA (US);
James K. Lee, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jeffrey L. Emery, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Benvenue Medical, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for delivering an intravertebral implant into a vertebral body of a vertebra. The apparatus includes a cannula operatively connected to a housing wherein the cannula is adapted for insertion into the vertebral body. The housing includes a drive system for advancing a guide member through the cannula, out of a distal end opening of the cannula and into the vertebral body. Further, the drive system also selectively or simultaneously advances a pushing element that is adapted to push an intravertebral implant along the guide member so that the guide member guides the implant through the cannula, out of the distal end opening of the cannula and into the vertebral body for implantation.