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Patent No: US 7,879,102 B2

Method for Treatment of Defects in the Intervertebral Disc. Patent No: US 7,879,102 B2. Inventors: Michael Slivka & Hassan Serhan Date of Patent: Feb. 1, 2011.

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Patent No: US 7,879,102 B2

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  1. Method for Treatment of Defects in the Intervertebral Disc Patent No:US 7,879,102 B2 Inventors: Michael Slivka & Hassan Serhan Date of Patent: Feb. 1, 2011

  2. A minimally invasive spinal disc defect repair method that relates to insertion of disc defect repair materials that are substantially two-dimensionally shaped and which allow for insertion and preferably self retention within the disc defect with plugging of the annulus fibrosis. Abstract

  3. Spinal disc cross-section • Nucleus pulpose • Annular fibrosus • Nucleus pulposusprolapse extending through a defect in the annular fibrosis Fig. 1

  4. Spinal disc cross-section • Nucleus pulposus • Annular fibrosus (5) Partial neucleotomy Fig. 2

  5. Spinal disc cross-section • Nucleus pulposus • Annular fibrosus (5) Partial neucleotomy (6) Disc defect repair material (7) Tool Fig. 3

  6. Spinal disc cross-section • Nucleus pulposus • Annular fibrosus (5) Partial neucleotomy (6) Disc defect repair material (7) Tool twisting clockwise while inserting Fig. 5

  7. Insertion tool and disc defect repair material Fig. 6AFig. 6BFig. 6C

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