TRANSPEDICULAR DEVICE FOR FIXING THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering.

SUBSTANCE: device has ball and socket joint casings having cylindrical and supporting parts, transpedicular screws having spherical heads, axial rods and transverse tie rods. Lower unseparable lips are available on external surfaces of supporting parts of ball-and-socket joints. The upper lips are separable and they are mounted on cylindrical parts of the casings. Cylindrical grooves which radii are equal to the axial rod radii are available on opposite surfaces of the upper separable and lower unseparable lips of the ball-and-socket joints. External thread is available in cylindrical parts of the casings with fastening nuts mounted thereon for fixing the separable lips. Locking members controlling angular displacements of spherical heads along transpedicular screw axes are manufactured as fixing screws having ring-shaped cutting edge on contact side to enable one to introduce them into internal threaded openings of the cylindrical parts. The axial rods are manufactured as pivot levers having rod part on one end and bushings on the other end arranged in perpendicular to each other. Locking member for controlling bushings rotation of pivot levers relative to each other is manufactured as radial teeth on plug plane and locking screws for positioning in bushing holes.

EFFECT: rigid fixation of injured vertebral column segment; small-sized fixing members; reduced risk of traumatic complications.

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