Laurent B. Schaller,Steven S. Golden,Jeffrey L. Emery,James K. Lee,Mark Y. Hirotsuka,Russell J. Borg
申请号:
US12640171
公开号:
US08470043B2
申请日:
2009.12.17
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要:
Discectomy or disc preparation system that includes a guide member that is changeable from a deployment configuration for insertion into an intervertebral disc space to a deployed configuration upon being deployed into the intervertebral disc. The system also includes at least one tissue manipulator, such as cutting, scraping and extraction elements, that can be moved or tracked longitudinally along the guide member into and through the intervertebral disc space.