INTERCONNECTING DEVICE FOR A SPINAL CONSTRUCTION ASSEMBLY

摘要

A device (10) for interconnecting a connecting rod (66) with a separate rod (64) and fixing these rods (64, 66) to a bone, in particular a vertebra, this device comprising a connecting body with a hook member for securing said connecting body to a bone. The connecting body comprises: a first connecting member (16) and a second connecting member (18). The first connecting member (16) has a slot adapted to receive a connecting rod (66), said slot opening into two opposite side faces of the first connecting member (16). The second connecting member (18) is adapted to receive a first end (62) of a separate rod (64), in a manner that the direction of the separate rod (64) is adaptable with respect to the direction of the connecting rod (66). A system for stabilizing vertebrae, comprising such an interconnecting device (10).