Adjustable prosthetic socket component, introducer, method and system for use in joint surgery
CA 2115512 A1 · Owner: Lennox, Dennis W. · Inventors: Lennox, Dennis W.
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A prosthetic socket component for articulating anatomical joints includes a shell member for being affixed to a first bone of the joint and a liner to be received in a cavity of the shell member through an opening in the shell member communicating with the cavity. The cavity has a longitudinal axis that is angularly offset from a longitudinal axis of the shell member, and the liner is rotatable relative to the shell member about the cavity axis to change the size of an angle made by a socket opening in the liner with the cavity opening. A method of implanting a prosthetic socket component includes the step of aligning a portion of the liner with one of a plurality of portions of the shell …
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- Filed February 11, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 11, 2014.
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