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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2000
Sulzer Orthopedics Ltd., Baar, CH;
Abstract
An instrument ( ) for the introduction of an osteochondral transplant (P) which is removed form a harvest location, or of an implant which is correspondingly prepared in vitro at an implantation location, has a passage ( ) in which the transplant is received and a piston ( ) for the pressing out of the transplant (P) from the distal end of the passage into a depression which is prepared at the implantation location. A space for the reception of a buffer medium (F) with a high conformability and an elasticity which is dimensioned in such a manner that no bodily contact between the piston ( ) and the transplant (P) or the implant respectively exists during the pressing out of the transplant (P) is provided between the end surface ( ) of the piston ( ) facing the transplant (P) and the surface of the transplant (P) facing the piston ( ).