US 5,702,461 AGranted

Prosthesis fixturing device

AssigneeBiomedical Engineering Trust I

InventorsMichael J. Pappas, Frederick F. Buechel

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Abstract

A tibia fixturing device comprises a metal tray formed with annularly spaced recesses in its underside at a depth of at least about 1.5 mm and from which a stem depends for axial insertion into a tibia conical cavity. The stem has a circular cylindrical portion proximal the tray and a conical portion distal the tray. Fins radially extend from the stem cylindrical portion and penetrate the tibia to provide some torsional resistance. Axially extending channels are formed about the stem periphery which channels have bottom surfaces parallel to the stem axis to provide further torsional resistance. The channels are arranged to not interlock with the cement in the axial direction to permit the cement to separate first from the device during axial removal of the device from the bone. The fins have inclined edges distal the tray and inclined radial outer edges to align and center the stem to the bone cavity edge. Cement in the tray recesses bonds the tray to a tibia resected surface to provide major torsional resistance of the tray about the cavity longitudinal axis.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A prosthesis fixturing device for attaching a prosthesis component to a bone, said bone having a resected surface and a cavity, said cavity being in communication with the surface at a cavity edge, said surface and said cavity for receiving said device, said device comprising:

a tray having a first surface facing away from said bone and a second opposing surface for attachment to said resected surface of said bone;
and
a stem having a proximal end rigidly joined with said second surface of said tray and a distal end remote from said tray, said stem defining a longitudinal axis, said stem including an peripheral surface extending from said proximal end to said distal end, each location on said peripheral surface defining a radial distance to said longitudinal axis, said peripheral surface being configured such that in any radial plane passing through said longitudinal axis, said radial distance of any point on said peripheral surface is not greater than the radial distance for any other of said points on said peripheral surface and in said plane at any location closer to said tray, said stem having a plurality of axially extending channels extending axially along said peripheral surface, each said channel having a bottom surface, said channel bottom surfaces intersecting said stem peripheral surface at a channel region distally of the tray, the bottom surfaces each having a radial dimension to said longitudinal axis at least as great as the radial dimension of the corresponding intersections.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/588,406Filed 18 Jan 1996 · division
Priority: 27 Oct 1994
Granted: 30 Dec 1997
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

A61F 2/389
For elbows or knees: tibial components
A61F 2002/30065
Properties of materials and coating materials: thermoplastic, i.e. softening or fusing when heated, and hardening and becoming rigid again when cooled
A61F 2002/3013
Rounded shapes, e.g. with rounded corners: figure-"8"- or hourglass-shaped
A61F 2002/3082
Applied in original prostheses, e.g. holes or grooves: grooves

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Serial330,196Parent of this division · filed 27 Oct 1994
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