Sight barrel arthroscopic instrument

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1990-09-07

1995-01-31

Green, Randall L.

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 86, 606 88, 606 89, 606102, A61B 1760, A61B 1900

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053855671

ABSTRACT:
A sight barrel arthroscopic instrument for use in a knee cruciate ligament repair procedure for forming a passage into the femoral endosteum to intersect, at an acute angle, a straight ligament tunnel that is formed from a point on the tibial tuberosity into the femur endosteum. Which instrument references the ligament tunnel to guide drilling of a passage from a point in the roof of the intercondyle notch to intersect the ligament tunnel in the femur endosteum, which passage is for receiving a fastener, such as a set screw, interference screw, or the like, that is installed into a ligament graft fitted in that ligament tunnel, providing an endosteal fixation of which ligament graft in that femur endosteum.

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patent: 4627425 (1986-12-01), Reese
patent: 4672957 (1987-06-01), Hourehane
patent: 4823780 (1989-04-01), Odensten et al.
patent: 4920958 (1990-05-01), Walt et al.

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