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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2009
Anton J. Steiner, Warton, NJ (US);
David I. Knight, Perth Amboy, NJ (US);
Paul J. Mulhauser, New York, NY (US);
Karl D. Kirk, Iii, New York, NY (US);
Richard J. Cosenza, Island Park, NY (US);
Gregory C. Fanelli, Danville, PA (US);
Anton J. Steiner, Warton, NJ (US);
David I. Knight, Perth Amboy, NJ (US);
Paul J. Mulhauser, New York, NY (US);
Karl D. Kirk, III, New York, NY (US);
Richard J. Cosenza, Island Park, NY (US);
Gregory C. Fanelli, Danville, PA (US);
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, Edison, NJ (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed toward a surgical kit having component parts capable of use to prepare a cartilage implant plug from allograft condyle. The kit comprises a sizing gauge used to measure surface of the allograft condyle so that a cartilage implant plug can be removed that corresponds to the contours of the defect site excised on a patient. An adjustable guide member is mounted in a fixed orientation over the allograft condyle in which a cylindrical graft cutter for cutting a cylindrical allograft bone plug having a cartilage cap and a bone end portion. A chamfering tool is used for chamfering the bone end of the allograft bone plug.