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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1999
Moritoshi Itoman, Yamato, JP;
Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Sagamihara, JP;
Noriyuki Ishida, Kyoto, JP;
Shingo Tamabuchi, Kyoto, JP;
Masaru Ueno, Kyoto, JP;
Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a femoral prosthesis to be utilized as an implant into a human femur to connect the coxa. The femoral prosthesis comprises a stem body to be inserted into a femur bone, a neck portion fixed integrally at the proximal portion of the stem body, a spherical head member having an opening to receive the neck potion, and a cross pin for fixing the stem body to the femur bone, wherein the stem body is formed with a pinnig hole through a proximal portion thereof corresponding to a greater trochanter of the femur bone, and the cross pin is in a unthreaded cylindrical shape and inserted into the pinning hole, both ends of the cross pin being projected out of the stem body to be engaged with the bone wall of the femur bone.