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FLA. COMPANY DEVELOPS TOOL TO HELP BACK SURGEONS

February 13, 2006

Dr. Robert Lins knows the suffering his patients endure in back surgery. The orthopedic surgeon at the Center for Bone and Joint Surgery in West Palm Beach typically makes a large incision and implants long screws into the vertebrae, along with a metal bar to connect them, to stabilize the back after repairing a degenerative disk. "A traditional fusion is a big operation with significant blood loss," Lins said.

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