SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING PERCUTANEOUS SPINAL INTERBODY FUSION

摘要

A method of performing percutaneous interbody spinal fusion on adjacent vertebrae in a patient including the steps of: creating a percutaneous access opening on the patient, using indirect visualization to establish a surgical path through the access opening via neural monitoring, creating a cavity in a disc space between the adjacent vertebra, without retraction, evaluating the created cavity, inserting a container sized and configured to fit through the access opening into the cavity and filling the container with fill material.

主权项

1. A method of performing percutaneous interbody spinal fusion on adjacent vertebrae of a patient, the method comprising:
creating a percutaneous access opening into the patient; using indirect visualization, without retraction,
to establish a surgical path to an intervertebral disc through the percutaneous access opening; after establishing the surgical path to the intervertebral disc through the percutaneous access opening, creating a cavity in the intervertebral disc by inserting an instrument through the surgical path, without retraction of the percutaneous access opening; inserting an implantable device into the created cavity through the surgical path in an undeployed state, wherein the implantable device in the undeployed state is sized to fit through the percutaneous access opening without retraction of the percutaneous access opening; and after inserting the implantable device into the cavity, filling the implantable device with fill material through the surgical path via the percutaneous access opening.