Ferton Holding

Bernard Simon

Andreas Menne

Wolfgang Merkle

Denis Klopfenstein

Joachim Schmidt

In a surgical instrument for the mechanical removal of bone cement (,), comprising a longitudinal housing (,) with a cylinder (,) in which a piston element can be reciprocated by a drive means (,), wherein the piston element on the distal end (,) of the cylinder (,) exerts an impact on a chisel tool supported axially in the housing (,), it is provided that the piston element (,) comprises a projectile (,) adapted to be accelerated to a high final speed and inducing a shock wave into the chisel tool comprising a metallic shock wave transmission probe (,), the probe tip (,) of the chisel tool transmitting the shock wave to the bone cement (,) at a low movement amplitude of the probe tip (,).

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La Cure, France

Bernard Simon