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US 8,540,722 B2Granted
Methods, materials and apparatus for treating bone and other tissue
AssigneeDePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
InventorsMordechay Beyar, Oren Globerman, Abraham Domb, Ronen Shavit, Hila Wachsler-Avrahami
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Abstract
A method of treating a vertebra, comprising: (a) accessing an interior of a vertebra; and (b) introducing a sufficient amount of artificial biocompatible material which does not set to a hardened condition in storage, into said bone, with sufficient force to move apart fractured portions of said bone.
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A method of treating a vertebra, comprising:
- (a) inserting a delivery device into an interior of a vertebra;
- (b) introducing bone cement through the delivery device and into the vertebra without an enclosure between the bone cement and the vertebra;
- and
- (c) manipulating the delivery device, as the bone cement flows through the delivery device, to change an introduction direction of the bone cement;
- wherein a sufficient amount of bone cement is delivered to the interior of the vertebra with sufficient force to move apart fractured portions of the vertebra.
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A method of treating bone, comprising:
- (a) inserting a delivery device into an interior of a bone;
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- (b) introducing bone cement into the bone through a plurality of extrusion apertures formed in the delivery device, without a separate void forming act and without an enclosure between the cement and the bone, and with sufficient force to move apart fractured portions of the bone.
A method of treating a vertebra, comprising:
- (a) inserting a delivery device into an interior of a vertebra;
- and
- (b) introducing bone cement through the delivery device and into the vertebra without a separate void forming act and without an enclosure between the bone cement and the vertebra;
- wherein a sufficient amount of bone cement is delivered to the interior of the vertebra with sufficient force to move apart fractured portions of the vertebra.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.