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Primary Examiner: Frinks, Ronald L.
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Attorney: Haight & Huard

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Title: Surgical implant spinal staple

Abstract: Surgical implant, known as a double-hole spinal staple for use in securing metal cables to vertebrae in operations for the correction of scoliosis.

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Inventors: Hall, John Emmett (Boston, MA, US)

Application Number: 680233
Filing Date: 1976-04-26
Publication_date: 1977-09-13
Assignee: Downs Surgical Limited (Mitcham, EN)
Primary Class(es): 606/61 411/471, 411/920
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US Patent Ref:

2489870	Nov, 1949	Dzus	128/92.
3693616	Sep, 1972	Roaf et al.	128/69.

Other Refs: Other References: Mario M. Stone Table Staple, Richards Mfg. Co. Orthopedic and Instruments (catalog), Memphis Tenn., 1966, p. 115.
Mario M. Stone Table Staple, Orthopedic Catalog, Richards Mfg. Co., Inc., Memphis Tenn., Copyright 1974, Effective Price List of Nov. 15, 1974, p. 72.
"A New Surgical Approach for Correcting the Scoliotic Spine Using a Tensioned Cable Secured to the Convex Curve of the Affective Vertebrae" by A. F. Dwyer, Advertisement p. 57, The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, vol. 53A, No. 2, Mar. 1971.