AN INTRAMEDULLARY ALIGNED BONE CUTTING JIG FOR ELBOW REPLACEMENT

Authors
ZAFIROPOULOS G ATTFIELD SF
Citation
G. Zafiropoulos et Sf. Attfield, AN INTRAMEDULLARY ALIGNED BONE CUTTING JIG FOR ELBOW REPLACEMENT, Medical engineering & physics, 17(2), 1995, pp. 111-114
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Biomedical
Journal title
Medical engineering & physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
13504533
Volume
17
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
111 - 114
Database
ISI
SICI code
1350-4533(1995)17:2<111:AIABCJ>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
One of the main post operative complications of total elbow replacemen t has been dislocation and fracture of the olecranon. This has been as sociated with rotational malalignment of the bone cuts of the proximad ulna caused by the current free hand cutting method. This paper prese nts an intramedullary aligned bone cutting jig which gives rotational location on the ulna for the bone cuts, without notching the olecranon .