Surgery – Instruments – Orthopedic instrumentation
Patent
1994-09-02
1996-05-07
Tucker, Guy
Surgery
Instruments
Orthopedic instrumentation
606 88, A61B 1756
Patent
active
055141390
ABSTRACT:
A distal femur resecting apparatus for use in the preparation of a human distal femur for the implantation of a human femoral prosthesis. The resecting apparatus includes a positioning apparatus and a pattern device. The positioning apparatus includes a positioning block for attachment to a femur, an adjustment block having an intermedullary rod extending into the femur, and a rotational alignment device for attachment of the pattern device to the positioning apparatus. The pattern device comprises an individual or pair of mediolaterally located plates having a cutting path described therethrough similar in shape to the interior profile of a human 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 shape the distal femur to accept a distal femoral prosthesis.
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Goldstein David B.
Haines Timothy
Hudson Surgical Design, Inc.
Tucker Guy
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