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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Depuy Ireland Unlimited Company, Cork, OT, IE;
Jay R. Lieberman, Avon, CT (US);
Benjamin J. Sordelet, Columbia City, IN (US);
Richard Spencer Jones, Shropshire, GB;
Timothy G. Vendrely, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Stephanie M. Wainscott, Warsaw, IN (US);
Michael A. Cook, Claypool, IN (US);
Rebecca L. Chaney, Warsaw, IN (US);
Joseph G. Wyss, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Stephen A. Hazebrouck, Winona Lake, IN (US);
Aaron J. Matyas, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANY, Cork, IE;
Abstract
A modular knee prosthesis system includes a femoral component having a stem, a plurality of different sizes of sleeves mountable on the stem, and a plurality of different sizes of augments mountable on the femoral component. The system is modular, and provides the surgeon with the option of distally offsetting the joint line by selecting the size of sleeve that will provide the desired joint line. The different sizes of sleeves have different axial lengths but share a common geometry along a substantial part of their lengths so that the same bone cavity will accept multiple sizes of sleeves.