SPINE-TECH FILING PMA FOR BAK LUMBAR FUSION SYSTEM
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
SPINE-TECH FILING PMA FOR BAK LUMBAR FUSION SYSTEM in "roughly 30 days," President and CEO David Stassen told analysts in a Dec. 1 session of the Robertson Stephens & Co. medical conference in New York City. The system is intended as an alternative to bone graft ("non-instrumented") and plate-and-screw ("instrumented") procedures to treat degenerated discs. The device is comprised of titanium cages that are filled with bone from the patient" s hip and threaded into the spine to replace problem discs.