DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING ENDOPROSTHESIS CUP POSITION IN SETTING HIP JOINT ENDOPROSTHESIS Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has three units (A, B and C) fixed one relative to another. Unit A has base having limb, bushings having slots and upright, adjusting screw for fixing the upright having arrow attached to it, fastening screw for fixing the base having U-shaped groove on the lower surface for being fixable to special rest member of operation desk. Unit B has axial rod, removable bushing having fixed rod and mark corresponding to the limb. Unit C has unit B modified in a way that the fixed rod is substituted with a short fixed rod having guiding members (three of them in particular case) being in perpendicular relation to one another. EFFECT: enhanced accuracy in setting endoprosthesis cup in cases of coxarthrosis of compensatory fixed scoliosis of lumbar vertebral column region, hip joint misalignment in frontal plane, pelvis rotation about longitudinal body axis. 12 cl