Surgical instrument for introducing intervertebral implants

US6599294B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Franz Konstantin Fuss · Singapore, SG
• Ronald J. Sabitzer · Wien, AT
• Stephan Eckhof · Tuttlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 26, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 29, 2003
• Expiry date: Jul 26, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2250/0006
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In order, in the case of a surgical instrument for introducing intervertebral implants into the intervertebral space between adjacent vertebral bodies, to facilitate the introduction of the intervertebral implant even when access is difficult, it is proposed that the surgical instrument comprises two mutually opposing guide bodies, which each have a guide directed towards the other guide body and together form between them a guideway, along which an intervertebral implant is insertable laterally into the intervertebral space.