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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2012
Jody L. Seifert, Birdsboro, PA (US);
Paul W. Millhouse, Wayne, PA (US);
Jamie Calverley, Drexel Hill, PA (US);
Michael Lee Boyer, Ii, Phoenixville, PA (US);
Nirali Patel, Bristol, PA (US);
David W. Ankney, Devon, PA (US);
Mark Adams, Honey Brook, PA (US);
Jody L. Seifert, Birdsboro, PA (US);
Paul W. Millhouse, Wayne, PA (US);
Jamie Calverley, Drexel Hill, PA (US);
Michael Lee Boyer, II, Phoenixville, PA (US);
Nirali Patel, Bristol, PA (US);
David W. Ankney, Devon, PA (US);
Mark Adams, Honey Brook, PA (US);
GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC., Audobon, PA (US);
Abstract
A device is disclosed for reducing a vertebral compression fracture, comprising a superior end plate and an inferior end plate disposed along a vertical axis. The superior end plate and the inferior end plate are slidably separable in a vertical direction along the vertical axis. An interior chamber is provided in fluid communication with a port extending from an exterior to the interior chamber. The device is deployable within a vertebral body and expandable within the vertebral body by injecting a flowable material into the interior chamber thereby displacing the superior and inferior end plates along the vertical axis.