Surgical reamer

Surgery – Instruments – Orthopedic instrumentation

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606 79, 606167, 606170, 606180, 407 30, 407 58, 407 59, 407 60, 408 48, A61B 1900

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051221349

ABSTRACT:
The cutting head for a surgical reamer has a leading end for insertion into a bone canal and a trailing end for attachment to a drive shaft. The cutting head has a cutting surface formed about an axis of rotation of the cutting head. The cutting surface is formed by the rotation of the cutting edges on a plurality of flutes spaced around the axis of rotation. Each cutting edge has a first portion spaced a predetermined radial distance from the axis of rotation at the tip portion and terminates at a terminating point which is at a greater radial distance from the axis of rotation than the starting point. The cutting edge on each flute has a second portion having a starting point at the trailing end of the cutting head which is at a second predetermined radial distance from the axis of rotation. The second portion extends axially towards the tip portion and terminates at a point at a greater radial distance from the axis of rotation than the starting point thereof. A third curved portion starts at the terminating point of the first portion and terminates at the terminating point of the second portion and intersects the first and second portions tangentially.

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