Patent ID: 9649205
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F

Claim:
1. A method of knee arthroplasty, comprising: (a) resecting a patient's distal femur with anterior and posterior cuts; (b) positioning a femoral trial component on the distal femur, the trial component comprising (i) condylar regions separated by an opening and (ii) a removable cutting guide adapted to be secured in a fixed relationship with the opening while at any of multiple anterior/posterior locations along the condylar regions; (c) securing the removable cutting guide in a fixed relationship relative to the opening; (d) after securing the removable cutting guide in the fixed relationship relative to the opening, preparing the patient's distal femur using the removable cutting guide to guide at least one cutting instrument; and (e) controlling the at least one cutting instrument using the removable cutting guide.