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AssigneeDepuy Ireland Unlimited Company
InventorsNicolas Demanget, Joseph G. Wyss
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Systems and methods for an orthopaedic surgical procedure include a surgical instrument adapter having an elongated body with a slot define in one end and a lug positioned on the other end. The slot is sized to receive the pointer end of a navigated pointer instrument such that the pointer end is held in a predetermined position relative to the surgical instrument adapter. A method for performing the orthopaedic surgical procedure includes inserting the pointer end of the navigated pointer instrument into the slot of the adapter, inserting the lug of the adapter into a hole defined in a surgical guide instrument, positioning the surgical guide instrument on a surgically prepared surface of a patient's bone, and determining a position of the navigated pointer instrument using a surgical navigation system. By way of example, the surgical guide instrument may be a femoral finishing block or a tibial template.
A method for performing an orthopaedic surgical procedure, the method comprising:
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