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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1986
William Fargie, Westlake Village, CA (US);
James Friend, Bakersfield, CA (US);
John L Wilson, Granada Hills, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
An improved tibial cutting jig is provided for use in obtaining accurate tibial resection in the course of a total knee prosthesis implantation procedure. The tibial cutting jig includes a base for sliding reception onto an intramedullary alignment rod preinstalled generally along the longitudinal axis of the tibia. The base includes laterally extending outriggers carrying removable measurement keys of selected size for spacing the base above the tibial plateau by a selected dimension. An anterior saw guide depends from the base and is thus positioned relative to the tibial plateau in accordance with the sizes of the measurement keys.