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Howmedica International Inc.

Graham A Gie

Robin S Ling

Tom J Slooff

W E Mikhail

James J Elting

Peter Lawes

Jacques J Vanderlinden

Lars Linder

A prosthesis having attachment portion for insertion into or attachment to a patient's bone without bone cement. Parts of the attachment portion on the prosthesis are attached to the bone are covered with a mantle of synthetic resin material and which has a roughened outer surface with bone fragments or calcium phosphate fragments embedded therein.

Preformed mantle

An apparatus for performing hip prosthesis revision surgery includes means for preparation of the cavity left after removal of the original prosthesis. A tamp having a longitudinal passageway extending longitudinally through the stem portion thereof and a guidewire positioned in the cavity function to compact bone graft material in the cavity and form a precisely contoured new hip prosthesis receiving cavity.

System for performing hip prosthesis revision surgery

A method and apparatus for performing hip prosthesis revision surgery includes preparation of the cavity left after removal of the original prosthesis. A tamp having a longitudinal passageway extending longitudinally through the stem portion thereof and a guidewire positioned in the cavity function to compact bone graft material in the cavity and form a precisely contoured new hip prosthesis receiving cavity.

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Exeter, United Kingdom

Graham A Gie