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Method and apparatus for providing access to a presacral space

  • US 8,034,055 B2
  • Filed: 05/28/2009
  • Issued: 10/11/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing access to a presacral space, the method comprising:

  • making an incision through the patient'"'"'s skin adjacent to the coccyx;

    inserting an elongated instrument through the incision in a cephalad direction toward an anterior presacral space, the instrument having an instrument proximal end and an instrument distal end; and

    advancing the instrument distal end in the cephalad direction without entering bone until the instrument distal end is at a target area within the anterior presacral space.

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