| abstract |
An improved system for creating and placing an expandable body in bone for better and more effective treatment of bone disease. A device for insertion into a bone having a cortical bone that surrounds an internal volume at least partially occupied by cancellous material, the device for inserting into a guide tube and the internal volume An inflatable body that is conveyed by a guide tube that normally exhibits a collapsed shape; a nozzle that is conveyed by the guide tube in the vicinity of the inflatable body and inserted into the internal volume with the inflatable body; and The guide tube in communication with the inflatable body transports a medium that causes expansion of the inflatable body in the internal volume to compress cancellous and form a cavity in the internal volume. Equipment comprising a lumen and a second lumen in the guide tube in communication with the nozzle and transporting material for ejection from the nozzle into the cavity. [Selection figure] None |