Surgery – Instruments – Orthopedic instrumentation
Patent
1996-02-20
1998-09-22
Tucker, Guy V.
Surgery
Instruments
Orthopedic instrumentation
606 88, A61B 1756
Patent
active
058108270
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus is provided for cutting bone. In one embodiment, a femur is resected by means of pattern plates having a cutting path with at least two continuous, non-coplanar guide surfaces. The cutting path has a similar profile to the interior profile of a femoral prosthesis. The cutting path guides a reciprocating, oscillating, or rotating cutting tool along a path for removing material from some or all of the distal femur to accept a distal femoral prosthesis. The cutting tool can be a cylindrical milling bit, and can even have a curvilinear profile to cut bone such that it has a three dimensional profile in cross section. Pattern plates can also be used to cut or remove material from other bones.
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Goldstein David B.
Haines Timothy G.
Hudson Surgical Design, Inc.
Tucker Guy V.
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