Customized patient-specific orthopaedic surgical instrument
AssigneeDePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
InventorsR. Patrick Courtis, Francis Metelues
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Abstract
An orthopaedic surgical instrument includes a customized patient-specific surgical instrument having a body. A cutting guide slot extends through the body. A pair of first arms extends posteriorly from the body. Each arm includes a first customized patient-specific negative contour configured to receive a portion of a first corresponding positive contour of one of a patient's femoral condyles. A second arm extends proximally from the body. The second arm has a second customized patient-specific negative contour configured to receive a portion of a second corresponding positive contour of an anterior surface of the patient's femur. A method of performing a surgical procedure is also disclosed.
Claims15
A method of performing an orthopaedic surgical procedure, the method comprising:
- placing a visual marking on a surface defining a deepest portion of a trochlear groove of a patient's femur,
- placing a customized patient-specific surgical instrument on the patient's femur, and
- aligning an alignment slot extending through the customized patient-specific surgical instrument with the visual marking on the surface of the patient's femur to position the customized patient-specific surgical instrument on the patient's femur.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.