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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2015
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc., Raynham, MA (US);
Marcel Mueller, Therwil, CH;
Meret Labhart, Zurich, CH;
DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., Raynham, MA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a connector has a bone connecting portion that is elongate along a central axis and secures the connector to a vertebra, and has a guiding portion that is located proximal to the bone connecting portion. The guiding portion has a flexible wing that extends from a platform member of the guiding portion, and a connecting portion that attaches the platform member to the bone connecting portion. The wing is bendable with respect to the platform member between an extended configuration where the wing extends outwardly away from the platform member, and a curved configuration where the wing is bent so as to define at least a portion of a passageway between the inner surface of the wing and a protrusion of the platform. The passageway receives and slides along an elongated support member such as a spine rod.