Cannulated Modular Tibial Stem Component Pieces for Use in Total Ankle Arthroplasty and Systems for Installing and Removing Same

A tibial prosthetic removal system for removing a cannulated modular tibial prosthetic stem component disposed within a distal tibia;

• said tibial prosthetic removal system comprising:
• a cannulated drive shaft comprising an open ended, interior circumscribing surface defining an open ended central shaft bore passing through said cannulated drive shaft and having a central longitudinally extending shaft bore axis;
• said cannulated drive shaft configured to pass through a channel formed in a calcaneus and talus and up through a tibial-talar space disposed adjacent the distal tibia having the cannulated modular tibial prosthetic stem component disposed therein, the cannulated modular tibial prosthetic stem component formed from a plurality of detachably coupled together cannulated modular tibial stem component pieces each comprising a centrally disposed and axially extending interior circumscribing surface defining an open ended longitudinal bore that together define a central open ended longitudinal stem bore of the cannulated modular tibial prosthetic stem component having a central longitudinally extending stem axis;
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• a guide wire configured to be received through said open ended central shaft bore of said cannulated drive shaft and through the central open ended longitudinal stem bore of the cannulated modular tibial prosthetic stem component disposed within the distal tibia to align in a substantially coincident location said central longitudinally extending shaft bore axis with the central longitudinally extending stem axis of the cannulated modular tibial prosthetic stem component.