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Method and apparatus for spinal procedures

  • US 7,189,240 B1
  • Filed: 08/01/2000
  • Issued: 03/13/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/01/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Apparatus configured for entering the spine of a body of a live human patient through separate first and second incisions, made in the patient adjacent to different vertebrae in the spine, to remove material from the spine, the apparatus comprising:

  • a handle;

    first and second elongate extensions, attached to said handle, long enough to extend, simultaneously, from the handle respectively through the first and second incisions to separate first and second locations along the length of the spine; and

    a flexible rasp configured to pass along the first extension into the body through the first incision and up to the first location on the spine, through a spinal channel from the first location to the second location, and from the second location along the second extension out of the body through the second incision.

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