摘要 |
Hip prosthesis structure includes a stem to be inserted into the upper portion of the femur, this stem having in its top a cavity for housing the free end of a shaped neck which carries on its other end a spherical head to be joined to the acetabulum of the hip. The free end of the neck is shaped in the form of two half truncated cones positioned so that they are mirror images of each other and delimited transversely by two bases which are essentially flat and parallel. The half truncated cones are linked to each other by two surfaces which form two recesses inside the planes tangent to the two half truncated cones on opposite sides of the plane which contains their axes, the shape of the cavity being complementary to the solid formed by the two half truncated cones and by the two planes tangent to them. |