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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2013
Ldr Medical, Rosieres Pres Troyes, FR;
Reginald James Davis, Cockeysville, MD (US);
Kevin Kaufman, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Greg Hoffman, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Alan McGee, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Jean Huppert, L'Etrat, FR;
Hugues Mousselard, Paris, FR;
Ludovic Rillardon, Le Raincy, FR;
LDR Medical, Sainte-Savine, FR;
Abstract
This present invention concerns a transforaminal intersomatic cage for an intervertebral fusion graft, and an instrument and method for implanting the cage, an embodiment of the cage having a body in the shape of a circular arc and comprising a lateral concave surface, a lateral convex surface, a straight upper surface, a straight lower surface and an end wall having at least one hole, called the end hole, designed to receive a rod of an instrument for implanting the cage between the vertebrae, wherein: the end hole has an orientation that is more or less tangential to the circular arc described by the body; the extremity opposite the end wall of the body includes a return part extending the body toward the center of the circle on which the circular arc described by the body lies.