US2011245924A1PendingUtilityA1

Annulus-Reinforcing Band

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Individually held — no corporate assignee on recordPriority: Dec 15, 2000Filed: Dec 31, 2010Published: Oct 6, 2011
Est. expiryDec 15, 2020(expired)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:Stephen D. KuslichPatricia K. Kuslich
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Abstract

A method and device for supporting bone graft including a porous enclosure having a first collapsed state and a second expanded state wherein the second expanded state is sized to conform to the excavated intervertebral cavity upon insertion of bone graft into the enclosure.

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1 . A device for supporting bone graft in an excavated intervertebral cavity comprisng:
 a porous enclosure having a first collapsed state and a second expanded state;   the second expanded state sized to conform to the excavated intervertebral cavity upon insertion of bone graft into the enclosure.   
     
     
         2 . A method of supporting bone graft in an excavated intervertbral cavity comprising:
 inserting a porous enclosure in a collapsed state into an excavated intervertebral cavity;   filling the porous enclosure with bone graft to expand the porous enclosure such that the porous enclosure and bone graft conform to the intervertebral cavity.

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