Endoprosthesis

• US 4,695,283 A
• Filed: 06/27/1985
• Issued: 09/22/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gunther Aldinger
• Original Assignee: Gunther Aldinger
• Inventors: Aldinger, Gunther
• Primary Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Isabella, David J.
• Application Number:
  US06/749,880
• Time in Patent Office: 817 Days
• Field of Search: 623/18, 623/19, 623/20, 623/21, 623/22, 623/23, 128/92 C, 128/92 CA, 403/173, 403/174
• US Class Current: 623/23.24
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/3094 Designing or manufacturing processes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/30942 for designing or making customized prostheses, e.g. using templates, CT or NMR scans, finite-element analysis or CAD-CAM techniques
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/3662 Femoral shafts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/30332 Conically- or frustoconically-shaped protrusion and recess
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/30948 using computerized tomography, i.e. CT scans
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/365 Connections of heads to necks
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/369 Stepped shaft, i.e. having discrete diameter changes
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2220/0033 made by longitudinally pushing a protrusion into a complementary-shaped recess, e.g. held by friction fit
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2310/00017 Iron- or Fe-based alloys, e.g. stainless steel
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 623/914 Bone

Abstract

An endoprosthesis insertable in a bone cavity comprises an anchoring shaft having circular steps at least in supporting regions (X,Y) of the anchoring shaft in which a support of said anchoring shaft in the bone takes place. The shaft has at a free end remote from a mouth of the bone opening a straight portion. The steps are formed in at least the straight portion one after another without undercuts. The shaft conically widens from said end towards an end opposite to said free end. The steps have contours which are at least in the region in which the steps are supported in the bone, individually adjusted to respective cross-sections of the bone hollow, which cross-sections exist at the positions of the individual steps when the endoprosthesis is inserted into the bone.

Claims

1. An endoprothesis comprising an elongated shaft dimensioned to be anchored through a bone opening in a bone cavity, said shaft being formed in one piece having a shape composed by a plurality of individual disc-like segments of different shapes forming a tapered stepped profile without undercuts from a proximal end to a distal end of said shaft;

said shapes of said individual disc-like segments having outer perimeters adjusted to substantially match the corresponding cross sections of the bone cavity in order said implanted shaft to be fitted snugly to the bone cavity at least in regions of said shaft in which a support of said implanted shaft to the bone takes place when said endoprothesis is loaded.

2. The endoprothesis as defined in claim 1, wherein surfaces which limit adjacent disc-like segments of said shaft include an angle of 90°

with each other.

3. A endoprothesis as defined in claim 1, said shaft defining a longitudinal axis therethrough and having a curved proximal portion, a straight distal portioln and a joint ball head at its proximal end, said joint ball head being positioned outside of a main axis of said shaft, said main axis being the longitudinal axis of said straight distal portion;

said longitudinal axis of said shaft being aligned with an antetorsion plane of said shaft which is defined by maximum diameters of all said individual disc-like segments of said shaft.

4. The endoprothesis as defined in claim 3, wherein said antetorsion plane is curved.

5. The endoprothesis as defined in claim 3, wherein said antetorsion plane is twisted.

6. The endoprothesis as defined in claim 1, wherein said disc-like segments of said shaft have edges with cut-off corners.

7. The endoprothesis as defined in claim 1, wherein the heights of said disc-like segments of said shaft are different.

8. The endoprothesis as defined in claim 1, further including a covering plate mounted at the proximal end of the shaft and closing a bone surface and said bone opening, said covering plate being formed with a flange surrounding an edge of the bone surface.