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Surgical bicompartmental tensiometer for revision knee surgery

  • US 5,630,820 A
  • Filed: 12/05/1994
  • Issued: 05/20/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A surgical apparatus for spreading a distal end of a femur away from a proximal end of a tibia at a knee joint of a patient thereby placing adjacent collateral ligaments in tension, said apparatus comprisingmeans for spreading a medial side of said knee,means for spreading a lateral side of said knee, anda pair of parallel rods connecting said means for spreading said medial side and said means for spreading said lateral side for holding said means for spreading in selectable non-rotatable spaced relation with respect to each other, each rod slidingly received in at least one of said means for spreading.

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