Patent ID: 7238190
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus that is secured for use with anchoring pins so as to facilitate a surgical procedure where a bone is cut so as to resect a portion of the outer surface of said bone so that the remaining cut portion of said bone has a prescribed degree of curvature, said apparatus comprising: a base having a top and a bottom surface and a primary anchoring hole that extends between said surfaces and through which a primary anchoring pin may be extended for anchoring with said bone, said anchoring hole having an adjoining and cooperating primary means for locking the position of said base relative to said anchoring pin, said base further having a secondary anchoring hole that extends from the top to the bottom of said base and through which a secondary anchoring pin may be extended for anchoring with said bone, said secondary anchoring hole having an adjoining and cooperating secondary means for locking the position of said base relative to said anchoring pin, said base further having a front surface which contains an opening, a surgical blade positioning means, said means having a front and a rear surface, said front surface configured to have said prescribed degree of curvature and to allow a surgeon to position a surgical blade for making the cut having prescribed degree of curvature, and a shaft having distal and proximate ends, said shaft distal end being attached to said positioning means rear surface, the proximate end of said shaft configured so as to allow said shaft to slide in and out from said base opening for positioning said front surface of surgical blade positioning means at a prescribed position in front of said base front surface.