Patent ID: 6599295
Filing Date: 2003-07-29
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A device for implanting or removing a deformable anchoring implant in a bone of a patient, the device including a body having a front portion and a rear portion, a rod mounted within said body and having a forward end portion extending from said front portion of said body and adapted to engage with the anchoring implant and a rear portion, a movable grip assembly pivotally mounted to said body for selectively operatively engaging an activating assembly for operatively moving said rod in translation relative to said body, and a rod locking and release assembly mounted to said body and movable from a first engaged position wherein said rod is engaged to prevent movement thereof to a second disengaged position wherein said rod is free to move in rotation relative to said body or in translation relative to said body when said movable grip assembly operatively engages said activating assembly for moving said rod in translation.