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Granted Patent B2
US 9,918,769 · App. 14/839,001 · Granted Mar 20, 2018

Instrumentation and technique for sizing a bone reconstruction graft

Inventors: Matthew T. Provencher (Weston, MA); Donald K. Shuler (Naples, FL); John Sodeika (Naples, FL)
Assignee: ARTHREX, INC.
A61B17/8863A61B90/06A61F2/4644A61B2017/90A61B2090/061A61F2002/4649
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,918,769
App. No.
14/839,001
Granted
Mar 20, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

This disclosure details surgical instrumentation and related techniques for performing bone reconstruction surgeries. The surgical instrumentation may be used to size and shape a graft, such as an allograft. The appropriately sized and shaped graft is subsequently used to reconstruct damaged bone. A surgical instrumentation set is used to prepare the graft. The surgical instrumentation set includes a graft workstation, a plurality of sizing blocks and a plurality of cutting blocks.

Claims (21)

1. A surgical instrumentation set, comprising:

a graft workstation configured to receive a bone block, said graft workstation including a cutting jig movable relative to said bone block;

a plurality of sizing blocks configured to estimate a size of a bone graft to be harvested from said bone block; and

a plurality of cutting blocks interchangeably connectable to said cutting jig and each configured to guide at least one cut in said bone block to form said bone graft;

wherein said plurality of cutting blocks include a first cutting block having a first slot configured to make a vertical cut in said bone graft and a second slot configured to make an angled cut in said bone graft.

2. The surgical instrumentation set as recited in claim 1 , wherein said bone graft is a distal tibia allograft.

3. The surgical instrumentation set as recited in claim 1 , wherein said graft workstation includes a first graft holding post and a second graft holding post.

4. The surgical instrumentation set as recited in claim 3 , wherein said first graft holding post and said second graft holding post are slidable within a first slot of a base plate of said graft workstation and said cutting jig is slidable within a second slot of said base plate.

5. The surgical instrumentation set as recited in claim 3 , wherein said first graft holding post includes a spiked post configured to receive said bone block.

6. The surgical instrumentation set as recited in claim 1 , wherein said plurality of cutting blocks include a second cutting block configured to make a horizontal cut in said bone graft.

7. The surgical instrumentation set as recited in claim 6 , wherein said plurality of cutting blocks include a third cutting block configured to make additional vertical cuts in said bone graft.

8. A surgical instrumentation set, comprising:

a graft workstation configured to receive a bone block, said graft workstation including a cutting jig movable relative to said bone block;

a plurality of sizing blocks configured to estimate a size of a bone graft to be harvested from said bone block;

a plurality of cutting blocks interchangeably connectable to said cutting jig and each configured to guide at least one cut in said bone block to form said bone graft; and

a parallel drill guide configured to retrieve said bone graft from said bone block.

9. A surgical instrumentation set, comprising:

a graft workstation configured to receive a bone block, said graft workstation including a cutting jig movable relative to said bone block;

a plurality of sizing blocks configured to estimate a size of a bone graft to be harvested from said bone block; and

a plurality of cutting blocks interchangeably connectable to said cutting jig and each configured to guide at least one cut in said bone block to form said bone graft; and

a parallel pin guide, a guide wire, and a drill configured to aid in preparing said bone graft.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 28, 2015
From: PROVENCHER, MATTHEW T.; SHULER, DONALD K.; SODEIKA, JOHN
To: ARTHREX, INC.
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Continuity (1)
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