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US 2019/0167441 A1Published application
Expandable intervertebral implant for treatment of scoliosis
OwnerLoubert S. Suddabyinventor
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Abstract
An expandable intervertebral implant, including a support component, an inferior component, including a first proximate end connected to the support component, a first distal end, a first top surface, and a first bottom surface, a superior component, including a second proximate end connected to the support component, a second distal end, a second top surface, and a second bottom surface, and a balloon connected to the first top surface and the second bottom surface and operatively arranged to expand the expandable intervertebral implant.
Claims20
An expandable intervertebral implant, comprising:
- a support component;
- an inferior component, including:
- a first proximate end connected to the support component;
- a first distal end;
- a first top surface;
- and,
- a first bottom surface;
- a superior component, including:
- a second proximate end connected to the support component;
- a second distal end;
- a second top surface;
- and,
- a second bottom surface;
- and,
- a balloon connected to the first top surface and the second bottom surface and operatively arranged to expand the expandable intervertebral implant.
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An expandable intervertebral fusion implant, comprising:
- a support component;
- at least one inferior component, including:
- a first proximate end connected to the support component;
- a first distal end;
- a first top surface;
- a first bottom surface;
- and,
- a first aperture;
- at least one superior component, including:
- a second proximate end connected to the support component;
- a second distal end;
- a second top surface;
- a second bottom surface;
- and,
- a second aperture;
- and,
- an expansion mechanism arranged between the first top surface and the second bottom surface and operatively arranged to be expanded to displace the at least one superior component relative to the at least one inferior component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.