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US 2002/0165613 A1Published application
Intervertebral fixation device having one or more bracing elements
AssigneeChih-I LIN
InventorsChih-I Lin, Seang Beng Tan, Hansen A. Yuan
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Abstract
An intervertebral fixation device includes an intervertebral fixation block and one or more bracing elements. The fixation block is provided with one or more joining slots. The bracing elements support the vertebrae under treatment at an insertion front end thereof, when the bracing elements are inserted into the joining slots of the fixation block.
Claims10
An intervertebral fixation device comprising:
- an intervertebral fixation block provided with one or more joining slots;
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- one or more bracing elements inserted into said one or more joining slots from one end of said intervertebral fixation block, so that an insertion front end of said one or more bracing elements protruding from said intervertebral fixation block for supporting a vertebra under treatment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.