A pedicle screw assembly including a bone fastener having a lower end for engaging bone and an upper end remote from the lower end; a head having a rod-receiving channel attached to the upper end of said bone fastener; a spinal rod insertable into the rod-receiving channel of said head, said spinal rod having an outer surface extending between first and second ends thereof, wherein at least one of the first and second ends has a reduced diameter section. A spinal rod having an outer surface extending between a first end and a second end thereof; wherein the outer surface of said spinal rod has a reduced diameter section at least one of the first and second ends.

Claims

11 · 2 independent · depth 3

11 granted claims

›1.independentA pedicle screw assembly comprising:na bone fastener having a lower end for engaging bone and an upper end remote from the lower end;a head having a r…+4

›6.independentA spinal rod having a cylindrical outer surface extending between a first end and a second end thereof, a curve between the first and second ends ther…+5

›7.↳ 6The spinal rod as claimed in claim 6, wherein both the first and second ends of said spinal rod have a continuous reduced-diameter outer surface throu…d2+1

›9.↳ 6The spinal rod as claimed in claim 6, further comprising a spherical surface along another portion of the continuous reduced-diameter outer surface, t…d2

›10.↳ 6The spinal rod as claimed in claim 6, further comprising a bone fastener having a lower end for engaging bone and an upper end remote from the lower e…d2

›11.↳ 6The spinal rod as claimed in claim 6, wherein the at least one alignment marker is a line that extends along the axis of curvature of said spinal rod.d2

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4 codes

IPC · International Patent Classification

Section A — Human necessities

A61B17/70

USPC · US Patent Classification

606/261606/265606/246

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25 Sep 2006

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Type	Document	Date
provisional	US 60847009	25 Sep 2006
related publication	US 20100145389 A1	10 Jun 2010

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