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Multi-lock anterior cervical plating system

  • US 6,193,721 B1
  • Filed: 02/11/1998
  • Issued: 02/27/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/11/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An anterior cervical plate for engaging at least two vertebral bodies of a human cervical spine along the anterior aspect of the spine, said plate having a lower surface for contacting the cervical vertebral bodies and an upper surface opposite to said lower surface, said plate having a plurality of bone screw receiving holes extending through said plate from said upper surface to said lower surface, at least a first and second of said bone screw receiving holes being associated with a first of the cervical vertebral bodies, and a recess associated with said at least first and second of said bone screw receiving holes, said recess having a configuration for retaining a locking element for locking at least two bone screws in said at least first and second bone screw receiving holes, the central longitudinal axis of said recess being offset from a transverse line passing through the central longitudinal axes of said first and second bone screw receiving holes.

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