Implant removal tool
AssigneeDepuy Ireland Unlimited Company
InventorJose S. RIVERA, JR.
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Abstract
An implant removal tool used to remove a femoral implant from a femur bone by providing a substantially U-shaped body having a substantially rectangular-shaped opening located thereon that allows the substantially U-shaped body to be placed over a neck of a femoral implant so a sharpened front edge of the substantially U-shaped body makes direct contact with an inner surface of the stem of the femoral implant. The U-shaped body may have front side edges that extend beyond a front edge to allow the front side edges to cut anterior and posterior surface of the implant.
Claims13
-14. (canceled)
An implant removal tool, comprising:
- a substantially U-shaped body including a curved inner surface, two side walls, a front edge, a right side edge, and a left side edge;
- and
- wherein a first of the two side walls connects to the front edge by the right side edge and a second of the two side walls connects to the front edge by the left side edge,
- wherein each of the right side edge and left side edge has a triangular-shaped point extending beyond the front edge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.