INTERNATIONAL ELEMENTS AND INTERNATIONAL DISTRACTION INSTRUMENTS

摘要

The implant (18a, 18b) has a cylindrical central part with a bone graft, where the central part has a tubular wire mesh in titanium. Plates is fixed on the central part, and the plates have plane external sides contacting with vertebral plates of clean vertebrae (52, 53) surrounding a broken vertebra (51). The plates are provided with slots adapted to receive a blade (2, 3) of a vertebral column distraction device.