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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Sulzer Brothers Limited, Winterthur, CH;
Protek AG, Berne, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 23 ;
Abstract
A femur head prosthesis is provided with a shank body for implanting in a femur and a pair of removeably fastened cheeks which are secured to opposite sides at a proximal end of the shank body. The cheeks can be selected from a kit of different sized cheeks. Also, each cheek has a bulge extending laterally from the shank body. Also, each cheek tapers in conically from lateral to medial and from proximal to distal.