Surgical instrument tray, hip resurfacing kit, and method of resurfacing a femoral head to preserve femoral head vascularity

摘要: A method of resurfacing a femoral head involves using chamfered reamer to ream only top portion the above an anterior lateral where retinacular vessels supply blood head. As no cylindrical reaming is performed on portions head, damage avoided. The thereby preserves vascularity. surgical instrument tray for enabling surgeon perform this includes both and spherometer assessing sphericity determine whether osteophyte growth likely cause femoro acetabular impingement. can also include tool, such as bone chisel or burr, removing osteophytes restore rather than reamer.