Paragraph Number

91

In one embodiment, the opening 266 may be sized to accept one or more of a K-wire, a bone bore, an awl, a pedicle probe, a pedicle implant, and/or a pedicle inserter. A surgeon may pass one or more of these example instruments through the opening 266 as part of a pedicle screw placement procedure or step. The surgeon may use the surgical device 200b to determine, or confirm, a desired orientation (e.g., desired orientation angle) for the location of the pedicle and use one or more of these example instruments to mark, identify, or implement an insertion trajectory for one or more pedicle screws into the pedicle of the vertebra 100.

Added by DJM 1 2022