Drilling tool, systems, and methods
AssigneeMazor Robotics Ltd.
InventorsEli Zehavi, Arik Levy
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Abstract
A surgical tool comprises a dilator, a cutter, a retractable brush, and at least one retractable drill. The dilator is configured to dilate tissue of a patient and can be positioned in an undilated configuration or a dilated configuration. The cutter is configured to cut the tissue and is disposed at a distal end of the dilator. The cutter is configured to move between a cutting position when the dilator is in the undilated configuration and a non-cutting position when the dilator is in the dilated configuration. The retractable brush is configured to brush a surface of an anatomical element of the patient to remove matter from the surface. The at least one retractable drill is configured to drill into the anatomical element.
Claims10
A method for drilling into an anatomical element comprising:
- cutting tissue of a patient using a cutter of a surgical tool;
- dilating the tissue of the patient using a dilator of the surgical tool, the dilator having a plurality of arms, each arm having a free end, the plurality of arms moveable between an undilated position, in which the free ends are closer to each other to define a wedge-like configuration, and a dilated position in which the free ends are further from each other than in the undilated position, wherein the cutter of the surgical tool is attached to a free end of one arm of the plurality of arms of the dilator;
- cleaning a surface of an anatomical element of the patient to remove matter from the surface using a brush of the surgical tool;
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- drilling into the anatomical element with at least one drill of the surgical tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.