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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING POSTERIOR OR ANTERIOR TRANS-SACRAL ACCESS TO SPINAL VERTEBRAE

  • US 20070055260A1
  • Filed: 08/07/2006
  • Published: 03/08/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A surgical operating system for forming a percutaneous pathway from a skin incision generally axially aligned with a series of adjacent vertebrae located within a human lumbar and sacral spine having an anterior aspect, a posterior aspect and an axial aspect, the vertebrae separated by intact or damaged spinal discs, the system comprising:

  • guide means operable from a skin incision for accessing an anterior or posterior sacral position of a sacral vertebra that is aligned with a visualized, trans-sacral axial instrumentation/fusion line extending in said axial aspect through the series of adjacent vertebral bodies; and

    tract means defining a percutaneous tract having a tract axis aligned with said visualized, trans-sacral axial instrumentation/fusion line and extending from the skin incision to the accessed sacral position to facilitate surgical procedures aligned with said visualized, trans-sacral axial instrumentation/fusion line.

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