Systems for treating and/or preventing fractures and related devices and methods
AssigneeWake Forest University Health Sciences
InventorsPhilip Jayson Brown, Brandon Lee Roller
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Abstract
Systems for treating and/or preventing fractures include at least one needle sized and configured to be placed into target bone and at least one implantable pin configured to be releasably held in a first needle of the at least one needle. The systems also include at least one delivery device of injectable material configured to couple to the first needle while the first implantable pin is held in the first needle whereby the at least one delivery device and a respective needle cooperate to serially provide an external column of the injectable material about the at least one implantable pin.
Claims24
An implantable medical truss system for target bone, comprising:
- a plurality of spaced apart implantable pins adapted to reside in the target bone, wherein, in position, the plurality of implantable pins are configured to have different and intersecting trajectories, wherein the plurality of implantable pins comprise a cross-sectional shape having an outer perimeter defined by a plurality of valleys and projections, and wherein, in position, at least some of the plurality of implantable pins are configured to have segments that couple to each other and/or that overlap with each other in different planes.
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