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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2016
Applicant:
Tornier, Inc., Bloomington, MN (US);
Inventors:
Robert Courtney, Jr., Pierceton, IN (US);
Jeffrey M. Ondrla, Warsaw, IN (US);
Assignee:
Tornier, Inc., Bloomington, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/88 (2006.01); A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/8872 (2013.01); A61B 17/16 (2013.01); A61B 17/1637 (2013.01); A61F 2/4603 (2013.01); A61F 2/4607 (2013.01); A61F 2/4612 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30426 (2013.01); A61F 2002/4619 (2013.01);
Abstract
A surgical tool, enabling extraction of a prosthesis from a bony implantation site of that prosthesis, defines a proximo-distal axis and includes a distal end head adapted both to cut at least partially the bonding interface between the prosthesis and the bony material of the implantation site and to fix itself to the prosthesis by rotation centered on the proximo-distal axis, according to embodiments of the present invention.