Patent ID: 9642633
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F,G09B

Claim:
1. A patient-specific guide for use in a surgical procedure, comprising: a medial body having a proximal portion and a distal portion; a first cannula and a second cannula, each of the cannulae with proximal and distal portions, at least one of the first cannula and the second cannula further comprising a bore oriented in a direction determined from the anatomical features of a patient, the bore adapted to guide an instrument or a fixation device in a cortical bone trajectory; and a surface of one or more of the medial body, the first cannula, and the second cannula including patient-specific contours determined from the patient's anatomy and configured to contact and substantially conform to at least a first subcutaneous anatomic feature of a vertebra of the patient.