Patent ID: 6530928
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
An instrument for an introduction of an osteochondral transplant which is removed from a harvest location, or of an implant which is correspondingly prepared in vitro, at an implantation location, said instrument having a passage in which the transplant or implant respectively is received and a piston for a pressing out of the transplant or the implant respectively from a distal end of the passage into a depression which is prepared at the implantation location, wherein that a space for the reception of a buffer medium with a high conformability and an elasticity which is dimensioned in such a manner that no bodily contact between the piston and the transplant or the implant respectively exists during the pressing out of the transplant or the implant respectively is provided between an end surface of the piston facing the transplant or implant respectively and a surface of the transplant or the implant respectively facing the piston.