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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2012
Applicants:

William C Horton, Duxbury, MA (US);

John Riley Hawkins, Cumberland, RI (US);

Christopher L Ramsay, West Wareham, MA (US);

Edward Zalenski, Lakeville, MA (US);

Alexander Grinberg, Newton, MA (US);

Hassan Serhan, South Easton, MA (US);

Ernest Quintanilha, Norton, MA (US);

Inventors:

William C Horton, Duxbury, MA (US);

John Riley Hawkins, Cumberland, RI (US);

Christopher L Ramsay, West Wareham, MA (US);

Edward Zalenski, Lakeville, MA (US);

Alexander Grinberg, Newton, MA (US);

Hassan Serhan, South Easton, MA (US);

Ernest Quintanilha, Norton, MA (US);

Assignee:

DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., Raynham, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/56 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/32 (2006.01); A61B 17/02 (2006.01); A61B 17/06 (2006.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/56 (2013.01); A61B 1/06 (2013.01); A61B 1/32 (2013.01); A61B 17/0218 (2013.01); A61B 17/06 (2013.01); A61B 2090/309 (2016.02);
Abstract

A novel posterolateral inter-muscular approach has been developed to access the cervical spine. The approach includes elevating the splenius capitis and trapezios muscles dorsally to create a window for deep spine access, wherein the window comprises


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