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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
May. 23, 2023
Aesculap Ag, Tuttlingen, DE;
Franz-Peter Firmbach, Emmingen-Liptingen, DE;
Svenja Anhorn, Heroldstatt, DE;
Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Abstract
A surgical instrument and surgical instrument system for use in a knee replacement operation. The surgical instrument includes a fastening device configured for direct or indirect releasable fastening to a cutting block for the distal resection of a femur, a sensing device with a posteriorly oriented reference plane configured to bear against an anterior surface of the femur, and a bearing device for positioning the reference plane. The bearing device includes at least one pivoting bearing with an anteroposteriorly oriented pivot axis, about which the reference plane can be moved pivotably relative to the fastening device.