Surgical guiding device for reconstruction of anterior cruciate ligament
AssigneeRichard Wolf GmbH
InventorsChristoph Herdrich, Peter Berg, Eberhard Körner, Dirk Göthel, Rainer Siebold
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Abstract
A surgical guiding device is provided for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament, including a guide arm and a guide hook extending away from the arm. The guide arm is constructed in the form of an arc, supports a mounting that is slidable on the guide arm and has a fixing device for an alignment wire that is separate from the mounting.
Claims10
A surgical guiding device for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament, comprising a guide arm (2), a guide hook (4) extending away from the guide arm, wherein the guide arm (2) has an arc form, a mounting (12) supported by and slidable on the guide arm (2), and a fixing groove (24) in the guide arm for an alignment wire (18, 28), wherein the fixing groove is separate from the mounting (12),
- wherein the mounting (12) is slidably arranged on the guide arm (2) in such manner that the mounting (12) is movable in a longitudinal direction of the arc (B) of the guide arm (2) to a first position that corresponds to the position of the fixing groove (24).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.