Patent ID: 9220535
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A process, for introducing a stabilizing element into a vertebral column having a plurality of adjacent vertebral bodies, comprising the steps of: providing a stabilizing element; introducing said stabilizing element into said vertebral column through a single access point, said single access point being arranged dorso-laterally, said step of introducing including the step of: passing said stabilizing element through one of two of said adjacent vertebral bodies such that one end of said stabilizing element comes to lie in the other of said two adjacent vertebral bodies; connecting said two of said adjacent vertebral bodies to each other along a longitudinal direction of said vertebral column; providing an intervertebral disk prosthesis; defining a single extraforaminal access point proximate said two adjacent vertebral bodies; introducing said intervertebral disk prosthesis through said single extraforaminal access point; and inserting said intervertebral disk prosthesis between said two adjacent vertebral bodies;