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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2017
Depuy Ireland Unlimited Company, Cork, IE;
Michael Reeve, Leeds, GB;
DEPUY IRELAND LIMITED COMPANY, Loughbeg Industrial Estate, Cork, IE;
Abstract
A measuring instrument () for use during an orthopaedic surgical procedure to measure first and second distances from a reference point on a bone to first and second measurement points respectively. The measuring instrument has a first scale () for displaying the first distance and a second scale () for displaying the second distance. It includes a mask () which can be positioned against the second scale after the first distance has been measured in a position that is selected relative to the second scale dependent on the measured first distance, to restrict the length of the second scale that is visible to the user.