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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:
May. 02, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1992
Elmar Nieder, York, DE;
GMT Gesellschaft Fur Medizinische Technik GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
A knee joint prosthesis kit which is composed of a femoral component having a housing and a shank implantable in a femur, a first tibial component having a first hinge leaf and a shank implantable in a tibia, a second tibial component having a second hinge leaf and a shank implantable in a tibia, and a pintle which can pivotally connect the housing of the femoral component with that tibial component whose leaf is inserted into the housing. This enables the femoral component and the first tibial component to pivot relative to each other abut a first axis which is normal or nearly normal to the shanks of the coupled components so that the resulting prosthesis can serve as a flexion type prosthesis. The second tibial component has a platform which carries the second leaf in such a way that the latter can turn relative to the platform and relative to the shank of the second tibial component about a second axis which is normal to the first axis when the second leaf is received in the housing and is secured thereto by the pintle. This enables the femoral component and the second tibial component to be used as a combined flexion and rotation type knee joint prosthesis.
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