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US 2006/0190083 A1Published application
Elastomeric spinal disc nucleus replacement
AssigneeImpliant Ltd.
InventorsUri Arnin, Yuri Sudin, Michael Tauber
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Abstract
A spinal disc nucleus replacement including an elastomeric sheath (12) assembled around a rod (14), a portion of the sheath being arranged for sliding along the rod, and a sheath compactor (18) adapted to slide a portion of the sheath along the rod from a first position to a second position, wherein in the first position the sheath is in a non-expanded orientation and in the second position the sheath is in an expanded orientation wherein folds of the sheath expand radially outwards from the rod.
Claims16
A spinal disc nucleus replacement comprising:
- an elastomeric sheath assembled around a rod, a portion of said sheath being arranged for sliding along said rod;
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- a sheath compactor adapted to slide a portion of said sheath along said rod from a first position to a second position, wherein in the first position said sheath is in a non-expanded orientation and in the second position said sheath is in an expanded orientation wherein folds of said sheath expand radially outwards from said rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.