Method for forming a tunnel intersecting a straight cruciate lig

Details Method for forming a tunnel intersecting a straight cruciate lig Method for forming a tunnel intersecting a straight cruciate lig

1991-11-29

1994-05-24

Green, Randall L.

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 86, 606 87, 606 88, 606 89, 606102, 128898, A61B 1760, A61B 1900, A61F 238

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ABSTRACT:
A method for forming a straight tunnel to endosteally intersect a straight anterior cruciate ligament tunnel that utilizes a sight barrel arthroscopic instrument for use in a knee cruciate ligament procedure for forming a passage into the femoral endosteum to inersect, at an acute angle, the straight anterior cruciate ligament tunnel. The instrument references the anterior cruciate 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 or alongside a ligament graft that is fitted in that anterior cruciate ligament tunnel, providing an endosteal fixation of which ligament graft in the femur endosteum.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4672957 (1987-06-01), Hourahane
patent: 4901711 (1990-02-01), Goble et al.

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