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US 2018/0000600 A1Published application
System and Method for Fracture Replacement of Comminuted Bone Fractures or Portions Thereof Adjacent Bone Joints
AssigneeToby Orthopaedics, Inc.
InventorEduardo Gonzalez-Hernandez
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Abstract
The system and method serves in facilitating replacement of comminuted bone fractures or portions thereof adjacent bone joints. The system and method employs a prosthesis to replace at least a portion of the comminuted bone fractures. The prosthesis serves in reproducing the articular surface of the portion or portions of the comminuted bone fractures that are replaced. In doing so, the prosthesis serves in restoring joint viability and corresponding articulation thereof.
Claims4
A method for replacing at least a portion of a fractured capitellum and/or a fractured trochlea, the method comprising the acts of:
- providing an apparatus having a prosthesis portion and a plate portion, the prosthesis portion having an exterior surface, and the plate portion including a first leg portion extending outwardly from the prosthesis portion and a second leg portion extending outwardly from the prosthesis portion;
- removing at least a portion of the fractured capitellum and/or the fractured trochlea;
- sizing and shaping the prosthesis portion according to the portion of the fractured capitellum and/or the fractured trochlea removed, the prosthesis portion having an exterior surface approximating the exterior surface of the removed portion of the fractured capitellum and/or the fractured trochlea;
- positioning the prosthesis portion relative to the humerus;
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- attaching the first leg portion to the lateral column of the humerus and the second leg portion to the medial column of the humerus.
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