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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jean-Loup Oudard, Saint-Nazaire-Les-Eymes, FR;
Assignee:
Etablissements Tornier, Saint-Ismier, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623 20 ; 623 18 ; 623 23 ; 606 73 ;
Abstract
A prosthesis of the knee which includes an articular element including a slideway in which is mounted the base of a bushing which threadingly receives a centro-medullary stem. The centro-medullary stem extends through the bushing so as to be engageable with impressions formed in the slideway to thereby lock the bushing and stem to the slideway.