CEMENT RESTRICTER

• Main Author: BRADNOCK, BRIAN, ROBERT, DENIS, PETER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 10.04.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PROSTHESES; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

The cement restricter (14, 19) is used in joint or bone prosthesis (16) implantation. A hollow substantially spheroidal seal (1) is adapted to be inserted into an elongate cavity formed in a bone (13) and is deformable in situ into a substantially oblate spheroidal form to engage sealingly the walls...