System for tensioning ligament grafts

Details System for tensioning ligament grafts System for tensioning ligament grafts

1997-09-03

1999-12-14

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 88, 623 13, A61B 1756

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060011068

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for tensioning a ligament graft includes a hydraulic tensioning cylinder with a piston having a distal end for holding and affixing, relative to the distal end of the piston, a free end of a ligament graft, where the other end of the ligament graft is affixed to a patient. An inflation device, in hydraulic communication with a cylinder, moves the piston to tension the graft.

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