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US 11,684,477 B2Granted
Repair of shoulder-joint lesions
AssigneeOTS Medical Ltd.
InventorsAssaf Dekel, Nir Lilach
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Abstract
The present invention relates to bone-implants for treating a lesion on a bone, comprising: a bone anchor, a container in communication with the bone anchor and an osteoconductive bone-filler material inside the container, and methods thereof.
Claims14
A method for treating a lesion in a joint with a bone-implant;
- said bone implant comprising:
- a bone anchor sized and configured to be inserted in a bore of a bone, within or adjacent to said lesion and further configured to keep said bone-implant in place on said bone,
- a container sized and configured to be disposed within said lesion and outside of said bore,
- an osteoconductive bone-filler material inside said container, and
- one or more sutures fixed to and extending proximally from said bone anchor,
- the method comprising:
- a. implanting said bone anchor of said bone-implant in said bore;
- b. transitioning at least a portion of said container from an elongate, low-profile delivery configuration to a shortened radially-expanded deployment configuration such that said container at least partially fills said lesion, and said bone-filler material located in said container causes said bone-implant to osseointegrate with said bone,
- wherein said one or more sutures passes through one or more holes defined in said container,
- wherein said implanting comprises distal sliding of said container along said one or more sutures toward said bone anchor.
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