METHODS FOR TREATING BONE
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Oct 4, 2007
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Feb 7, 2007
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Feb 7, 2006
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The present invention relates in certain embodiments to medical devices for treating vertebral compression fractures. In one embodiment, the invention relate to instruments and methods for introducing fill material into a vertebral body that slowly expands vertebral height without explosive balloon expansion as in kyphoplasty. The system provides a fill material that infills a vertebra without flowable bone cement as used in kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty procedures. Thus, the bone fill system prevents the possibility of extravasation of material into the spinal canal which occurs in a significant number of kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty procedures. An energy source can apply energy to a substantially rigid implant material in order to soften, melt, or fracture the implant material to infill a vertebral body.
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