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James T Canedy

James Howard Calandruccio

A bone cutter is provided for creating cylindrical bone plugs for patella-patellar tendon-tibia grafts and comprises a support having a pair of bone cutting wheels mounted thereon about a vertical axis. Each of the cutting wheels have an hourglass shape to define a circular opening therebetween. An adjustable plug guide is provided forwardly of the cutting wheels for guiding the harvested bone plug into proper engagement and alignment with the rotating cutting wheels.

Device for creating cylindrical bone plugs for patella-patellar tendon-tibia grafts

A radiolucent orthopedic chuck includes a housing having a driver stem protruding from the top surface and a drill bit protruding from the underside in radially spaced relation from the driver stem so as to displace a drill secured to the driver stem from the axis of the drill bit so that fluoroscopy may be used to ensure accurate alignment of the drill bit with a hole of an intramedullary nail both prior to and during its operation. A drive train interconnects the driver stem and drill bit for rotation in unison. All parts of the chuck but for the drill bit preferably radiolucent.

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Omaha, NE, United States of America

James T Canedy