Intersomatic cage, clamp for manipulating it and procedure for inserting the intersomatic cage between vertebrae
AssigneeTraiber, S.A.
InventorLuis Marquez Alvarez
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The invention relates to an intersomatic cage for intervertebral inclusion and fixing of said vertebrae, provided on its side face with at least one orifice or recess allowing it to be held by the holding clamp; this clamp is provided with hinged arms that can slide relative to one another, their sliding motion being controlled from their rear. The clamp body includes a copying device that reproduces at all times the position of the intersomatic cage as it is held by the clamp, always showing its intervertebral location. The invention is completed by the procedure for placing the intersomatic cages between the vertebrae.
Claims15
A system for intervertebral implantation comprising:
- an intersomatic cage which comprises at least one orifice made in the end of a cage lateral area, allowing it to be held by a clamp and positioned, said cage comprising two vertebral facing sides;
- and
- a clamp for manipulating said intersomatic cage, said clamp comprising
- two arms comprising an anterior end and a posterior end, said arms being crossed and hinged to each other at a central area by a hinge, said hinge allowing the arms to slide relative to each other;
- and
- a posterior attachment of said hinged arms that allows a free opening and closing motion and the regulated sliding motion of said arms;
- wherein said anterior end of said clamp arms comprises a shape adapted to at least one orifice used to hold said intersomatic cage;
- wherein said clamp further comprises a copying element that reproduces the shape and attachment rotational orientation of the intersomatic cage held by the clamp, this copying element being rotationally joined at a central area to one of the clamp arms, while hinged to the periphery of the copying element is a cam that is attached to the other clamp arm, reproducing in the copying element a rotation identical to that effected by the intersomatic cage held by the clamp ends.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.