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Systems and methods for creating cavities in interior body regions

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  • US 7,909,827 B2
  • Filed: 04/24/2007
  • Issued: 03/22/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/06/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising selecting a bone having an interior volume occupied, at least in part, by cancellous bone, deploying a tubular member into the cancellous bone, axially advancing from the tubular member a structure that projects as a cutting surface outside the tubular member, and rotating the tubular member to cut cancellous bone by rotation of the cutting surface.

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