NLT SPINE: Positive Results for PROW FUSION (Orthopedics This Week)
Go in small, but deliver a big footprint…NLT SPINE has announced that initial results from clinical experience with its PROW FUSION device are “highly positive.” The device, which is a 510(k)-cleared device and delivery system, is intended for spinal fusion in transforaminal (TLIF) procedures, and is based on NLT SPINE’s non-linear core technology, which allows for inserting large implants and instruments through a small incision.
“I have been pleased with the use of this innovative device in surgery and the clinical results thus far,” reported Dr. Paul McAfee in the June 28, 2012 news release. Dr. McAfee is director of the Scoliosis and Spine Center of Maryland and a nationally recognized expert in spine surgery, who has performed procedures using the PROW FUSION at St. Joseph Medical Center in Baltimore. “Thanks to the unique capabilities of PROW FUSION, it is well positioned to change the way minimally invasive interbody fusion surgery is performed.”
In recent months, clinical use of the device has begun through a limited product release in the U.S. and under clinical study in Europe. Surgery was performed in pa...
