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Intervertebral Disc Restoration

  • US 20080195210A1
  • Filed: 03/01/2006
  • Published: 08/14/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An intervertebral disc implant which includes:

  • an envelope of a stretchable and elastically deformable elastomeric material, the envelope including an attaching formation for attachment to an introducer to enable the envelope, in a collapsed state, to be introduced into a volume of an intervertebral disc that has undergone a nucleotomy; and

    a filler material receivable in the envelope via the introducer to cause the envelope to expand elastically to conform substantially to the volume in which the envelope is received, in use.

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