Kevin T. Foley,Jeffrey D. Moore,Bradley T. Estes,Mingyan Liu,Loic Josse
申请号：
US12807027
公开号：
US08142438B2
申请日:
2010.08.26
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
This invention relates to methods and instruments for performing a surgical procedure in a disc space between adjacent vertebrae. The instruments include a distractor and a cutting instrument. In one embodiment the distractor includes a body portion and a pair of flanges extending along opposite sides of the body portion such that a slot is formed between the flanges and the body portion. The cutting instrument is positionable over the body portion and into the slots of the distractor so that the flanges are positioned between the cutting instrument and the adjacent tissue.
