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Non cannulated dilators

  • US 20050004593A1
  • Filed: 07/26/2004
  • Published: 01/06/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of creating a working channel from a skin incision to proximate a vertebra, comprising:

  • making a skin incision, inserting a distal end of a non cannulated dilator into the skin incision, advancing the distal end of the dilator into proximity to a vertebra, the dilator extending from proximate the vertebra to external to the skin. incision, inserting a cannula over the non cannulated dilator, and removing the non cannulated dilator, a bore of the cannula defining a working channel from the skin incision to proximate the vertebra.

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