Bone treatment systems and methods

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APP PUB NO 20080027456A1
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11880475

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A bone cement injector used for treating vertebral compression fractures has diamond-like coatings or amorphous carbon based coatings with a high hardness and a low coefficient of friction on an interior flow channel thereof. Such a bone cement injector includes a sensor system for sensing retrograde bone cement flows that can migrate along a fractured path toward a pedicle and risk leakage into the spinal canal. An energy delivery system can be coupled to the injector for applying energy to tissue and/or to bone cement that migrates in a retrograde direction, wherein the energy polymerizes the cement and/or coagulates tissue to inhibit further retrograde cement migration.

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DFINE INC3047 ORCHARD PARKWAY SAN JOSE CA 95134

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Buehlmann, Eric Redwood City, CA 37 452
Luzzi, Robert Pleasanton, CA 67 10960
Shadduck, John H Tiburon, CA 381 64963
Truckai, Csaba Saratoga, CA 365 64242

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