Systems and methods for treating fractured or diseased bone using expandable bodies
AssigneeKyphon SARL
InventorsMark A. Reiley, Arie Scholten, Karen D. Talmadge, Robert M. Scribner
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Abstract
Systems and methods treat fractured or diseased bone by deploying more than a single therapeutic tool into the bone. In one arrangement, the systems and methods deploy an expandable body in association with a bone cement nozzle into the bone, such that both occupy the bone interior at the same time. In another arrangement, the systems and methods deploy multiple expandable bodies, which occupy the bone interior volume simultaneously. Expansion of the bodies form cavity or cavities in cancellous bone in the interior bone volume.
Claims17
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A method comprising the steps of:
- providing a compression structure having an inflatable body portion through the interior of which an elongated member extends;
- inserting the compression structure into cancellous bone;
- and
- inflating the body portion of the inserted compression structure to compress the cancellous bone and create a cavity therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.