Intramedullary alignment guide tool

Details Intramedullary alignment guide tool Intramedullary alignment guide tool

1997-11-18

1999-06-08

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 61, 606 88, 606 86, A61F 500

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059101431

ABSTRACT:
A handling tool for coupling to a cutting guide includes a substantially elongate first end shaped to be grasped by human hand. The tool includes at least two mating tines, disposed at a second end of the tool. The mating tines are biased to move toward each other and are forced apart from each other by a cam portioned therebetween. The mating tines each include a mating means for mating the tool with the cutting guide.

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Johnson and Johnson Orthopaedics brochure, "P.F.C. Modular Knee System with Specialist Instruments," Dec. 1992, author unknown, pp. 1-13.

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