Patent ID: 11963876
Assignee: nan
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. A method of treating a hip joint of a human patient by providing a medical device comprising at least one partly ball or bowl shaped artificial hip joint surface adapted to replace at least one hip joint surface in a functional hip joint, said hip joint comprising a caput femur and an acetabulum, said method comprising the steps of:
cutting the skin of the patient,
dissecting an area of the pelvic bone on the opposite side from the acetabulum,
creating a hole in said dissected area, said hole passing through the pelvic bone and into the hip joint of the patient, and
providing said medical device to the hip joint, through said hole in the pelvic bone of the patient,, wherein said medical device comprises an artificial caput femur.