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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2018
Zimmer, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Tim Yoko, Granger, IN (US);
Joseph C. Capek, Granger, IN (US);
Amanda Szalkowski, Winona Lake, IN (US);
Jeffery A. VanDiepenbos, New Paris, IN (US);
Zimmer, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Abstract
According to one example, a for revision knee arthroplasty is disclosed. According to this example, the method can include shaping a bone of a patient to create one or more recesses therein, selecting a stem provisional, disposing the stem provisional within the one or more recesses, and assembling in vivo the stem provisional with both a first provisional component configured to simulate a shape of one of a tibial tray implant or a femoral implant and a second provisional component configured to simulate a shape of at least one of a sleeve component, a cone component or a keel component of an implant.