Matthew Aaron Halanski,Taylor Jaraczewski,Lucas Schimmelpfenning,Stephen Kernien,Cody Bindle,Kyle Jamar
申请号：
US14010133
公开号：
US09545272B2
申请日:
2013.08.26
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
A bone stent facilitates bone fixation via interior contact, as may be useful for flexible entry into a sidewall of an elongated bone. As consistent with one or more embodiments, a stent includes proximal and distal end caps connected by a plurality of elongated members extending longitudinally between the end caps, and a flexible cable extending through the proximal end cap and connected to one of the end caps. The flexible cable, end caps and elongated members are responsive to the end caps being moved toward one another by laterally bending the elongated members outwardly away from one another, with the cable fixing the elongated members in the compressed state (e.g., while applying pressure to the interior sidewalls of a bone). When the end caps are released from the compressed state, the longitudinal compressive force is released and the elongated members elastically return to the uncompressed state.
