Surgery – Instruments – Orthopedic instrumentation
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-11
2006-04-11
Brown, Michael A. (Department: 3764)
Surgery
Instruments
Orthopedic instrumentation
C606S087000, C606S088000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07025770
ABSTRACT:
A femoral guide for precisely positioning a guide wire on a femur bone surface. A lumen allows a guide wire extending through the lumen to contact the bone surface at a location spaced a predetermined distance from an edge of the bone surface. With the guide wire driven into the bone, a bone tunnel can be formed substantially concentrically along the guide. Methods of precisely forming bone tunnels include the steps of engaging a bone surface edge with a tongue of the femoral guide, insertion of a guide wile through a femoral guide lumen, driving the guide wire into the bone through the lumen and forming a bone tunnel along the guide wire where a bone tunnel longitudinal axis is disposed from the edge engaged by die tongue a distance substantially equal to the distance that the tongue is disposed from the longitudinal axis of the lumen.
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McGuire David A.
Paterson Roger
Bromberg & Sunstein LLP
Brown Michael A.
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