Device for operating on a pedicle within a patient
AssigneePanoni's B.V.
InventorMicha Ilan Paalman
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Abstract
A device for operating on a pedicle within a patient, said device comprising a guide portion comprising a guide channel extending longitudinally therealong for guiding a tool to the pedicle, such as a needle or a bore, and said device, further comprising a handle which is mounted or mountable to the guide portion wherein the device is further equipped with a sleeve which snugly and removably fits around the guide portion, and which sleeve has a resiliently openable nose or forward end through which the guide portion is extendable by retracting the sleeve whilst the guide portion is received in the sleeve.
Claims20
A device for operating on a pedicle within a patient, said device comprising a guide portion comprising a guide channel extending longitudinally therealong for guiding a tool to the pedicle and said device further comprising a handle which is mounted or mountable to the guide portion, which device is further equipped with a sleeve which removably fits around the guide portion, and which sleeve has an openable nose or forward end through which the guide portion is extendable by retracting the sleeve whilst the guide portion is received in the sleeve, wherein the nose or forward end of the sleeve is resiliently openable to arrange that the nose will close upon retraction of the guide portion, and said forward end of the sleeve is convex as a fingertip when the guide portion does not extend through said forward end, wherein the guide portion has an extremity at its forward end that is shaped to accommodate a stable positioning of the guide portion on the pedicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.