Surgery – Instruments – Orthopedic instrumentation
Patent
1992-04-24
1994-06-28
Brown, Michael A.
Surgery
Instruments
Orthopedic instrumentation
606 96, A61F 500, A61F 232
Patent
active
053242955
ABSTRACT:
A convergence guide is provided that is particularly useful in arthroscopic knee surgery to allow the drilling of two guide pins starting at different places on the outside of the knee but converging to the same spot in the center of the knee. A pair of offset members are arranged in the convergence guide to facilitate adjustment of the position of the pins to converge at one of a plurality of predetermined distances. Each offset member is itself useful as an offset guide to drill a second guide pin through a bone in parallel proximity to a first pin disposed in the bone. The guide has a plurality of parallel offset holes set at predetermined distances in an array for enabling the guide to slide over and pivot around the first pin through one hole and receive the second pin through another hole.
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