Fracture treatment device
AssigneeGC Corporation
InventorsKatsuyuki YAMANAKA, Yuuhiro SAKAI, Katsushi YAMAMOTO, Yusuke SHIGEMITSU, Tadashi KANEKO
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Abstract
Provided is a fracture treatment device enabling efficient bone regeneration. The fracture treatment device (10) for connecting a bone on one side of a fracture site and a bone on the other side of the fracture site, the device including a fixation member (11) having a stick shape, a tissue regeneration structure (15) disposed in a manner to cover at least a part of the fixation member, wherein the tissue regeneration structure includes a support body made of a bioabsorbable material and cells retained in the support body, which cells regenerate bone.
Claims4
A fracture treatment device for bone connecting, the fracture treatment device comprising:
- a fixation member having a stick shape;
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- a tissue regeneration structure disposed in a manner to cover at least a part of an outer periphery of the fixation member, wherein the tissue regeneration structure includes a support body made of a bioabsorbable material and cells retained in the support body, the cells regenerating bone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.