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Title: Porous expandable device for attachment to bone tissue

Abstract

A device for attaching to substantially solid living bone tissue, comprising a body member having an outer surface shaped to fit approximately into an empty space in the tissue and having pores into which the tissue can grow to strengthen the bond between the device and the tissue, and adjustable means for expanding the body member against the tissue to an extent such as to provide a compressive stress capable of maintaining a snug and stable fit and of enhancing the growth of the tissue into the pores in the body member. The expanding means is adjustable to provide a stress between the tissue and the body member in the range of about 150 to 750 psi, typically 150 to 350 psi. Typically the body member comprises an expandable cylindrical portion having at least one radial slit extending longitudinally from a first end to the vicinity of the opposite (second) end thereof, at least one radial slit extending longitudinally from the second end to the vicinity of the first end thereof, and a tapered cylindrical hole extending coaxially from a wider circular opening in the first end to a narrower circular opening communicating with the second end.

Inventors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [3]
  1. Worthington, OH
  2. Richland, WA
  3. Columbus, OH
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
862785
Patent Number(s):
US 4011602
Assignee:
Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, OH)
DOE Contract Number:  
AC06-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
porous; expandable; device; attachment; bone; tissue; attaching; substantially; solid; living; comprising; outer; surface; shaped; fit; approximately; empty; space; pores; grow; strengthen; bond; adjustable; means; expanding; extent; provide; compressive; stress; capable; maintaining; snug; stable; enhancing; growth; range; 150; 750; psi; typically; 350; comprises; cylindrical; portion; radial; slit; extending; longitudinally; vicinity; opposite; tapered; coaxially; wider; circular; narrower; communicating; bone tissue; cylindrical portion; substantially solid; extending longitudinally; outer surface; compressive stress; surface shaped; empty space; surface shape; /623/433/606/

Citation Formats

Rybicki, Edmund F, Wheeler, Kenneth Ray, Hulbert, Lewis E, Karagianes, Manuel Tom, and Hassler, Craig R. Porous expandable device for attachment to bone tissue. United States: N. p., 1977. Web.
Rybicki, Edmund F, Wheeler, Kenneth Ray, Hulbert, Lewis E, Karagianes, Manuel Tom, & Hassler, Craig R. Porous expandable device for attachment to bone tissue. United States.
Rybicki, Edmund F, Wheeler, Kenneth Ray, Hulbert, Lewis E, Karagianes, Manuel Tom, and Hassler, Craig R. 1977. "Porous expandable device for attachment to bone tissue". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/862785.
@article{osti_862785,
title = {Porous expandable device for attachment to bone tissue},
author = {Rybicki, Edmund F and Wheeler, Kenneth Ray and Hulbert, Lewis E and Karagianes, Manuel Tom and Hassler, Craig R},
abstractNote = {A device for attaching to substantially solid living bone tissue, comprising a body member having an outer surface shaped to fit approximately into an empty space in the tissue and having pores into which the tissue can grow to strengthen the bond between the device and the tissue, and adjustable means for expanding the body member against the tissue to an extent such as to provide a compressive stress capable of maintaining a snug and stable fit and of enhancing the growth of the tissue into the pores in the body member. The expanding means is adjustable to provide a stress between the tissue and the body member in the range of about 150 to 750 psi, typically 150 to 350 psi. Typically the body member comprises an expandable cylindrical portion having at least one radial slit extending longitudinally from a first end to the vicinity of the opposite (second) end thereof, at least one radial slit extending longitudinally from the second end to the vicinity of the first end thereof, and a tapered cylindrical hole extending coaxially from a wider circular opening in the first end to a narrower circular opening communicating with the second end.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/862785}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1977},
month = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1977}
}