Robert A. Rabiner,Gene P. DiPoto,Jeffrey P. Broussaeau,Augustus C. Shanahan,Chi Yin Wong,Anthony T. OLeary
申请号：
US13297097
公开号：
US09216049B2
申请日:
2011.11.15
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
Implant removal systems and methods for using the system for removing an implant from a bone are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a method for removing an intramedullary implant from a bone includes navigating a guidewire into an intramedullary cavity of the bone inserting the guidewire into a lumen of an intramedullary implant located in the intramedullary cavity of the bone advancing a removal screw over the guidewire to the intramedullary implant threading the removal screw into the lumen of the intramedullary implant to engage the removal screw to the intramedullary implant and applying impaction force on the removal screw to remove the intramedullary implant from the intramedullary cavity.
