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US 2004/0167561 A1Published application
Expandable structures for deployment in interior body regions
AssigneeKyphon Inc.
InventorsRyan P. Boucher, Mark A. Reiley, Robert M. Scribner, Karen D. Talmadge
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Abstract
An expandable structure carried at the end of a catheter tube assembly can be contracted and/or wrapped to present a reduced profile during deployment and/or removal from a targeted tissue site.
Claims12
A method for treating bone comprising
- providing a structure having opposite ends spaced along an axis, the structure being adapted to undergo expansion outwardly about the axis, the structure having a normally unwrapped condition having an outside diameter,
- placing the structure in a wrapped condition by wrapping the structure inwardly about the axis to reduce the outside diameter,
- inserting the structure, while in the wrapped condition, into bone,
- returning the structure in the unwrapped condition inside bone, and
- causing expansion of the structure in cancellous bone.
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