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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2006
Erasmo Lopez, Seattle, WA (US);
Seungkyu Daniel Kwak, Grafton, MA (US);
Amie Borgstrom, Stanford, CA (US);
John R. Hawkins, Cumberland, RI (US);
Erasmo Lopez, Seattle, WA (US);
SeungKyu Daniel Kwak, Grafton, MA (US);
Amie Borgstrom, Stanford, CA (US);
John R. Hawkins, Cumberland, RI (US);
DePuy Spine, Inc., Raynham, MA (US);
Abstract
An artificial disc replacement implant is provided that includes an implantable body having a superior surface adapted to be positioned adjacent to an endplate of a superior vertebra, and an opposite inferior surface adapted to be positioned adjacent to an endplate of an adjacent inferior vertebrae. The implantable body includes at least one wall formed therein and extending between the superior and inferior surfaces. The wall(s) can be adapted such that, when the implantable body is disposed between the endplates of adjacent superior and inferior vertebrae, the wall(s) will buckle by moving laterally and shorting in height under a load applied thereto by movement of the adjacent vertebrae. The implantable body can also include at least one opening formed adjacent to the wall(s) and extending between the superior and inferior surfaces of the implantable body.