Drill guide
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Jan 15, 1991
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May 14, 1990
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May 14, 1990
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A drill guide for drilling a transverse hole in a patient's knee to intersect a bony ligament tunnel formed in an arthroscopic surgical procedure for replacing the patient's cruciate ligament. The drill guide is U-shaped having spaced apart parallel co-planar legs extend from an arcuate base, one of which legs is solid to fit within the bony ligament tunnel and the other is holed at spaced intervals, the longitudinal axis of which holes point towards the solid leg, a select hole to receive a barrel turned therethrough that was an open longitudinal bore to guide a conventional drill turned therethrough and into the patient's knee to intersect, at a right angle, the bony ligament tunnel.
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