Ankle replacement system and method
AssigneeWright Medical Technology, Inc.
InventorsRamon Luna, Matthew D. Schultz
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Abstract
A surgical positioning system including a rotation guide slide and a rotation guide pointer configured to be coupled to the rotation guide slide. The rotation guide pointer includes a base and a pointer extension. The base includes protrusion and a hole extending through the base and the protrusion where the protrusion is sized and configured to be received within a channel such that the rotation guide pointer can translate parallel to a plane defined by the first side of the rotation guide slide. The hole is sized and configured to receive a screw to fix the position of the rotation guide pointer relative to the rotation guide slide, with the protrusion configured to expand when the screw is advanced in the hole.
Claims7
A surgical positioning system, comprising:
- a rotation guide slide having a first side and a second side, the second side opposite the first side, the rotation guide slide defining a channel extending into the rotation guide slide from the first side;
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- a rotation guide pointer configured to be coupled to the rotation guide slide, the rotation guide pointer including a base and a pointer extension, the base including a protrusion and defining a hole extending through the base and the protrusion;
- wherein the protrusion is sized and configured to be received slidably within the channel such that the rotation guide pointer can translate parallel to a plane defined by the first side of the rotation guide slide, and wherein the hole is sized and configured to receive a screw to fix the position of the rotation guide pointer relative to the rotation guide slide and further wherein the protrusion is configured to expand when the screw is advanced in the hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.