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IMPLANTABLE DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TREATING MICRO-ARCHITECTURE DETERIORATION OF BONE TISSUE

  • US 20070067034A1
  • Filed: 08/30/2006
  • Published: 03/22/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An expandable stabilization device for deployment within a vertebral body of a spine comprising:

  • (a) an elongate expandable shaft adapted to be positioned within the vertebral body having a first profile and a second profile;

    (b) wherein the shaft is adapted to cut through cancellous bone within the vertebral body during expansion from the first profile to the second profile; and

    (c) further wherein the shaft is adapted to abut a surface of cortical bone within the vertebral body without passing therethrough.

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