Patent ID: 8221423

Claim:
An instrument for harvesting an osteochondral plug graft in an implantable configuration, comprising: a support pod comprising an elongated tubular member distally terminating in at least three splayed legs; and a harvester having a distal end and a proximal end, said harvester comprising an elongated hollow chamber extending form said proximal end to said distal end of said harvester and configured to nest a guide wire therein wherein at least a portion of said guide wire extends from said distal end of said harvester, said distal end of said harvester terminating in a curette shaped trephine with radial cutting teeth encompassed within a longitudinal axis of the tubular member of the support pod, said curette shaped trephine being a leading end to a flute cut out section of the harvester wherein said trephine defines a proximal end and distal end, said flute cut out section terminating at said proximal end of said trephine and said radial cutting teeth disposed at said distal end of said trephine such that said radial cutting teeth are disposed in a longitudinally spaced apart configuration from a terminate end of said flute cut out section.