Patent ID: 8821582
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: machining a neck body formed of solid metal to include a neck that receives a femoral ball and having a male protrusion that extends outwardly from the neck body; fabricating, separately from the neck body, a bone fixation body with a porous metal structure that extends completely throughout the bone fixation body with the porous metal structure having a size and a shape that emulate a size and a shape of a porous structure of natural human bone; and attaching, after the bone fixation body is separately fabricated from the neck body, the bone fixation body to the neck body to create a hip implant such that the male protrusion extends into and permanently attaches with the porous metal structure of the bone fixation body to create the hip implant before the hip implant is implanted, wherein the porous metal structure of the bone fixation body includes a trapezoidal shape in a horizontal cross-sectional view of the hip implant, and the male protrusion extends to a distal end of the hip implant.