Patent ID: 6454805
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
An implant of the interbody cage type, particularly for cervical vertebrae, comprising a body which has an upper face and a lower face, which faces are able to bear on the overlying and underlying vertebral plates, and having at least one through-opening which opens out on said upper and lower faces, and additionally comprises an anchoring member movably mounted in said opening, said anchoring member comprising a bearing part adjacent to a first vertebral plate, and at least one projecting anchoring element extending from the said bearing part in the direction of the opposite vertebral plate, such that when the implant is compressed between the vertebral plates, said anchoring member is stressed by the first vertebral plate in the area of the said bearing part so as to move in relation to the body and so that said at least one projecting anchoring element juts out from that face of the body turned toward the opposite vertebral plate and anchors in the latter.