Patent ID: 7931679
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A device to maintain at least two vertebral bodies having a bone radius of curvature along a length thereof in a spatial relationship with each other, comprising: a surgical plate having a first portion configured and dimensioned to be attached to a first vertebral body and a second portion configured and dimensioned to be attached to a second vertebral body, the surgical plate having a length and a width, the length being greater than the width, the surgical plate having a first configuration having a first radius of curvature in the lengthwise direction and a second, elastically deformed configuration having a second radius of curvature in the lengthwise direction, the first radius of curvature being less than the bone radius of curvature, the second radius of curvature being greater than the first radius of curvature, the surgical plate in the second configuration being biased toward the first configuration, and the surgical plate in the second configuration adapted to be attached to the first vertebral body at the first portion and to the second vertebral body at the second portion.