Surgical router
CA 2131276 A1 · Owner: Linvatec Corporation · Inventors: Fucci, Joseph; Whipple, Terry L.
Overview
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A surgical router for cutting anatomical tissue includes an outer tubular member and an inner member rotatably disposed in said outer member and having a pair of router blades disposed distally of a distal end of the outer member and equally spaced about a longitudinal axis of the inner member and a pair of flutes disposed between the router blades. The flutes have bottoms and sides transverse to the flute bottoms, with the flute bottoms angularly intersecting a passage in the inner member to form aspiration ports within and integral with the flutes. The router blades have leading walls, trailing walls and clearance walls with a width between the trailing walls that is tapered in a distal …
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- Filed August 31, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 31, 2014.
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