NONDESTRUCTIVE AUTOGRAFT EXTRACTING DEVICE FOR AUTOLOGOUS OSTEOCHONDRAL TRANSPLANTATION

摘要

Systems and methods are disclosed for harvesting tissue from a donor site. Exemplary embodiments include a first and second conduit through which a flexible saw component is guided. Certain embodiments include a mechanism which facilitates insertion of the flexible cutting member component parallel to the transverse plane and slicing the graft parallel to the coronal plane to extract the graft.