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US 2013/0253522 A1Published application
Patient Selectable Joint Arthroplasty Devices and Surgical Tools
AssigneeConforMIS, Inc.
InventorsRaymond A. Bojarski, Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
Claims3
A method of making a patient-specific surgical tool for repairing a knee joint of a patient, comprising:
- deriving a shape of a surface portion of a proximal end of a tibia of the knee joint of the patient, and
- creating a surgical tool having a surface portion that negatively match the shape and a guide configured to define a cutting or drilling path through a portion of the proximal end of the tibia in a substantially vertical plane relative to a tibial plateau of the tibia.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.