Implant, drilling guide, modular system
AssigneeBiosurgex S.L.
InventorsMassimo Petazzoni, Angelo Monopoli Roca, Donato Monopoli
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Abstract
Implant for use in Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy Surgery (TPLO), in particular for a dog or a cat, wherein the Implant is attachable to the tibial corpus, in particular to a medial surface of the tibia, and the tibial head after circular-segment like cutting and rotating a caudal fragment by screws through screw holes that extend along a screw hole axis from a medial surface to a lateral surface, including a proximal head portion, a cranial extension and a caudal extension.
Claims18
An implant for use in Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy Surgery (TPLO) for a dog or a cat, wherein the implant is attachable to the medial surface of a tibial corpus and the tibial head after circular-segment like cutting and rotating a caudal fragment by screws through screw holes that extend along a screw hole axis from a medial surface to a lateral surface, comprising:
- (a) a proximal head portion attachable to the caudal fragment,
- (b) a cranial extension in distal and/or cranial direction is provided on a cranial side of the head portion,
- (c) a caudal extension in distal direction is provided on a caudal side of the head portion,
- wherein the cranial extension is attachable to at least one of a medial-cranial surface of the tibial corpus and a medial-cranial surface of a not cut cranial tibial head fragment, and wherein the caudal extension is attachable to the medial surface of the tibial corpus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.