Distractable body augmenter capable of being planted through a pedicle for vertebral body reconstruction

• US 7,500,992 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2004
• Issued: 03/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kung-Chia Li
• Original Assignee: Kung-Chia Li
• Inventors: Li, Kung-Chia
• Primary Examiner(s): Robert; Eduardo C
• Assistant Examiner(s): COMSTOCK, DAVID C
• Application Number:
  US10/957,717
• Publication Number:
  US 20060085007A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,617 Days
• Field of Search: 623 1711- 1716, 606/61, 606/90, 606246-249, 606/279, 606/105, 606/282
• US Class Current: 623/17.11
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/025 Joint distractors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/70 Spinal positioners or stabilisers ; Bone stabilisers comprising fluid filler in an implant
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/7035 Screws or hooks, wherein a rod-clamping part and a bone-anchoring part can pivot relative to each other
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/8852 capable of being assembled or enlarged, or changing shape, inside the bone or disc
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/0256 for the spine

Abstract

A distractable body augmenter is provided for reconstruction of a vertebra subjected to loss of bone mass or fracture, and is planted in the vertebra from a pedicle of the vertebra for helping maintain or restore normal position and size of the vertebra; through the pedicle, the augmenter, fitting the pedicle anatomy, was created to reconstruct the fractured or collapsed vertebral body; the augmenter includes a lower planted block, an upper planted block fitted to the lower block in a longitudinally displaceable manner, and a wedge-shaped bar, which is inserted between the upper and the lower blocks for changing the height of the augmenter after the upper and the lower blocks have been planted in a vertebra via a planting tunnel on a pedicle of the vertebra; the fractured body was reduced and maintained by the augmenter until the bone growth and fracture union.

Claims

1. A distractable body augmenter capable of being planted through a pedicle of a vertebra for vertebral body reconstruction, comprising:

an upper planted block, the upper planted block having an insertion portion projecting down from a lower side of an uppermost portion thereof and having a screw hole on a front end thereof;

a lower planted block fitted on the upper planted block, the lower planted block having a holding cavity between two lateral portions thereof, the upper planted block being fitted in the holding cavity at the insertion portion thereof; and

a wedge-shaped bar having a screw hole on a front end thereof, the wedge-shaped bar being inserted between a lower end of the insertion portion and an upper side of a bottom of the lower planted block for causing longitudinal displacement of the upper and the lower planted blocks after the planted blocks together have been planted in a vertebra via a planting hole of a pedicle of the vertebra, wherein the insertion portion of the upper planted block has longitudinal fitting trenches on two sides of a front end and a rear end thereof while the lower planted block has an inverted T-shaped gap at a front end thereof, and an U-shaped gap at a rear end thereof, the front and the rear ends of the insertion portion being respectively fitted in the inverted T-shaped gap and the U-shaped gap of the lower planted block.

2. The distractable body augmenter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the upper planted block has a rough surface.

3. The distractable body augmenter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lower planted block has a rough surface.

4. The distractable body augmenter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lower planted block has a plurality of holes on the front end thereof for connection with a planting tool.

5. The distractable body augmenter as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wedge-shaped bar is further formed with an extension portion projecting downwards from the front end thereof.

6. A distractable body augmenter capable of being planted through a pedicle of a vertebra for vertebral body reconstruction, comprising:

an upper planted block, the upper planted block having an insertion portion projecting down from a lower side of an uppermost portion thereof and a screw hole on a front end thereof, the insertion portion having a concavely curved side on a lower end thereof and a plurality of spaced apart raised lines being formed on the concavely curved side of the insertion portion;

a lower planted block fitted on the upper planted block, the lower planted block having a holding cavity between two lateral portions thereof, the lower planted block having a concavely curved portion on an upper side of a bottom thereof, a plurality of spaced apart raised lines being formed on the concavely curved portion of the lower planted block, the upper planted block being fitted in the holding cavity at the insertion portion thereof; and

a screw element formed with threads, the screw element being screwed into a space between the concavely curved side of the insertion portion and the concavely curved portion of the lower planted block after the planted blocks together have been planted in a vertebra via a planting hole of a pedicle of the vertebra, wherein the insertion portion of the upper planted block has longitudinal fitting trenches on two sides of a front end and a rear end thereof while the lower planted block at a front end has a plurality of holes for connection with a planting tool and an inverted T-shaped gap, and an U-shaped gap at a rear end thereof, the front and the rear ends of the insertion portion being respectively fitted in the inverted T-shaped gap and the U-shaped gap of the lower planted block.

7. The distractable body augmenter as claimed in claim 6, wherein the upper planted block has a rough surface.

8. The distractable body augmenter as claimed in claim 6, wherein the lower planted block has a rough surface.