Orthopaedic cutting guides with retractable saw blade slots

Details Orthopaedic cutting guides with retractable saw blade slots Orthopaedic cutting guides with retractable saw blade slots

1993-12-02

1995-05-16

Brown, Michael A.

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 87, A61F 500

Patent

active

054156637

ABSTRACT:
A new set of surgical instruments is described which provides a movable constraint such that the instruments include a saw guide which may be used in either a constrained or unconstrained fashion. The instruments have a movable restraint which, in the down position provides a continuous surface with the remainder of the instrument for guiding a saw, and when in the up position provides a constrained slot for guiding the saw of a surgeon in making cuts in prosthesis implantation surgery.

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patent: 5275603 (1994-01-01), Ferrante

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