Patent ID: 6296647
Filing Date: 2001-10-02
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
An instrument for the positioning of an implant in the human spine, as a replacement for one or more vertebra bodies located between two healthy vertebra bodies, comprising:a pair of vertebra body plates each attachable to a healthy vertebra body;a pair of distraction rods, which at one end are attachable to one of said vertebra body plates;two U-shaped parts, each having a pair of limbs forming the legs of the U, said limbs of each U-shaped part telescopically cooperate and form a tubular housing around the attached distraction rods, wherein the U-shaped parts comprise inner sections which are supported on the distractions rods; anda distraction instrument which is connected to the distraction rods for exerting a force onto the rods transversely to their longitudinal extension.