FRACTURE FRAGMENT MOBILITY TESTING FOR VERTEBRAL BODY PROCEDURES,申请号US20100970486-传众专利搜索

FRACTURE FRAGMENT MOBILITY TESTING FOR VERTEBRAL BODY PROCEDURES

申请公布号：US2012157832(A1)

申请号：US20100970486

申请日期：2010.12.16

申请公布日期：2012.06.21

申请人：

FEIGENWINTER GREGOR;TEISEN JACQUES;SYNTHES USA, LLC

发明人：FEIGENWINTER GREGOR;TEISEN JACQUES

分类号：A61B6/00

主分类号：A61B6/00

摘要：A fracture mobility testing system is provided for use in surgical procedures for augmenting vertebral bodies having collapsed due to compression fractures. The testing system is utilized to determine if the cortical shell of the vertebral body has begun to heal over the fracture lines to the point at which height restoration is not possible. Depending on the feedback provided by the testing system, the surgeon may elect to proceed with any of a variety of known height restoration techniques if the fractured portions of the vertebral body are still mobile, or may elect for a simple vertebroplasty procedure without height restoration if the feedback from the testing system determines that the cortical outer portions of the fractured vertebral body have fused to one another to the point at which height restoration is no longer an option.