Plug for bone tissue
Assignee9384-4934 Quebec Inc.
InventorBenoît BENOÎT
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Abstract
A cylindrical plug to close a femoral opening drilled in a femur to receive an intramedullary cutting guide, to prevent bleeding from the opening after removal of the intramedullary cutting guide from the opening.
Claims20
A femoral plug for sealing a femoral opening drilled in a distal region of a femur forming part of a knee joint to receive an intramedullary rod of an intramedullary cutting guide therein, the femoral plug comprising:
- an elongated body sized for insertion into the femoral opening, the elongated body being free of a through hole;
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- threads extending around at least a portion of the elongated body to engage bone surrounding the femoral opening to form a seal with the bone to prevent blood loss from the femoral opening into the knee joint.
A femoral plug for sealing a femoral opening drilled in a distal region of a femur forming part of a knee joint to receive an intramedullary rod of an intramedullary cutting guide therein, the femoral plug comprising:
- a monolithic elongated body sized for insertion into the femoral opening, the monolithic elongated body being configured to fill substantially an entire cross-sectional area of the femoral opening;
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- threads extending around at least a portion of the monolithic elongated body to engage bone surrounding the femoral opening to form a seal with the bone;
- wherein the femoral plug is configured to prevent blood loss from the femoral opening into the knee joint.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.