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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2016
Rajiv D. Pandya, Atlanta, GA (US);
Rajiv D. Pandya, Atlanta, GA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A technique for accessing extra articular lesions or abnormalities or intra osseous lesions or abnormalities or bone marrow lesions or all has the step of positioning the localizing pinning member onto cartilage or subchondral bone to define a virtual pathway through the cartilage or subchondral bone towards or into or through the lesion or abnormality or a desired target to create the virtual pathway utilizing an intra articular localizing pinning member to determine a location of the lesion or abnormality wherein the utilization of the localizing pinning member includes the step to locate or stabilize or both and thereafter using the virtual pathway to create an entry access.