In order, in a vertebral body replacement implant having an upper and a lower support plate for positioning against end faces of vertebral bodies and having two load-bearing elements, the mutual spacing of which is adjustable and of which at least one is connected in an articulated manner to a support plate, to improve the fixing of the articulated connection, it is proposed that the load-bearing element in the region of the articulated connection to the support plate has a bearing projection with a spherical lateral surface, that the support plate or a bearing part connected thereto rests with a contact surface, which is of a complementary design to the spherical support surface, against the lateral surface over an angular range that extends in peripheral direction at least over 180.degree., that the support plate or the bearing part is mounted on the bearing projection pivotably about a pivotal axis that extends parallel to the support plate, and that a clamping device that clamps the bearing projection, on the one hand, and the support plate or the bearing part in the contact region of the lateral surface and/or of the contact surface, on the other hand, against one another is provided, by means of which in a clamping position the bearing projection and the support plate or the bearing part are clamped non-pivotably relative to one another and in a release position are released so that they are freely pivotable relative to another about the pivotal axis.

 
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