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Methods and devices for treating fractured and/or diseased bone using an expandable structure that remains within the bone

  • US 20070055284A1
  • Filed: 09/27/2006
  • Published: 03/08/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/26/1994
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising a first tool sized and configured to establish an access path through soft tissue to bone having an interior volume occupied, at least in part, by cancellous bone, an expandable structure sized and configured for expansion in cancellous bone, and a second tool sized and configured for passage through the access path to introduce into the cancellous bone the expandable structure, which remains within the cancellous bone upon removal of the second tool.

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