Gary A. Fantini,Charlie Goodwin,Alex Hughes,Brian Bankoski,Michael A. Fitzgerald
申请号：
US14714951
公开号：
US09408598B1
申请日:
2015.05.18
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
A method for accessing an intervertebral disc space in a patients body involves making an incision in a region of the patients body that permits access to the psoas muscle, directing a blade of a first dissecting refractor through the incision and such that a distal end of the first dissecting retractor blade is positioned proximate the intervertebral disc space, and directing, independently of the first dissecting retractor blade, a blade of a second dissecting retractor through the incision and such that a distal end of the second dissecting retractor blade is positioned proximate the intervertebral disc space. During their placement within the patients body, the first and second dissecting retractor blades are employed in a tissue dissection process. Following the positioning of the distal ends of the first and second dissecting retractor blades proximate the intervertebral disc space, the first and second dissecting refractors are coupled to one another.
