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Repairing cartilage

  • US 6,146,385 A
  • Filed: 02/11/1997
  • Issued: 11/14/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/11/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A set of instruments for use during a procedure in which a tissue graft is inserted into bone tissue, the set of instruments comprisinga first instrument;

  • anda second instrument,wherein;

    the first instrument is configured to orient the second instrument against a surface of the bone tissue, said first instrument including a guiding portion disposed along a longitudinal axis for engaging the second instrument, a tissue-engaging portion, and at least one viewing portion permitting visual inspection of an interior of the guiding portion through a side wall of the guiding portion; and

    said second instrument is confined for inserting the tissue graft into a hole in the bone tissue, said guiding portion being sized to engage and align a portion of said second instrument against the bone tissue surface.

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