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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2003
Andrew M. Jacobs, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Carolyn K. Day, Maumee, OH (US);
Rhonda B. Clarke, Winona Lake, IN (US);
Herbert E. Schwartz, Ft. Wayne, IN (US);
John W. Kemppainen, Richland, MI (US);
Prasanna Malaviya, Ft Wayne, IN (US);
Anthony D. Zannis, Ft Wayne, IN (US);
Andrew M. Jacobs, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Carolyn K. Day, Maumee, OH (US);
Rhonda B. Clarke, Winona Lake, IN (US);
Herbert E. Schwartz, Ft. Wayne, IN (US);
John W. Kemppainen, Richland, MI (US);
Prasanna Malaviya, Ft Wayne, IN (US);
Anthony D. Zannis, Ft Wayne, IN (US);
Depuy Products, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Abstract
A surgical instrument stabilizes an implant as the implant is secured to native tissue at a damaged tissue site such as in an intra-articular space. The instrument has a proximal end portion, a distal end portion and an intermediate portion. The distal end portion has a template for guiding an attachment mechanism into the implant and the adjacent native tissue. The distal end portion can also have barbs to engage the implant to enhance stabilization of the implant. Several instruments can be provided in a surgical kit with different lengths and shapes of distal end portions. A surgical kit could also contain modular distal end portions of varying sizes and shapes. A surgical method utilizing the stabilizing instrument is also disclosed.