DEVICE FOR MEASURING FEMUR NECK AND HEAD ANTEVERSION Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has rigid bearing rods being long rectangle composed of three separate whole rectangles connected in series to each other by means of single- plane hinges. The middle rectangle has telescopic lateral bearing rods. Every rectangle has several thin rods of the same length arranged in parallel to each other and having sliding connection using lateral bearing rods of the rectangles. The thin rods are movable relative to the lateral bearing rods of the rectangles and relative to each other. EFFECT: high accuracy in measuring anteversion. 9 dwg