FR>EN Instrumentation for a total knee prosthesis

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Hello,

I would be grateful if anyone could help with a couple of terms for

instruments used for fitting a total knee prosthesis.

The terms are

" ciseau emporte pièce " et " faux "

ciseau emporte pièce:

an example is in the following sentence:

" Un ciseau emporte pièce peut être utilisé pour réaliser en un temps

l’ablation des ostéophytes de l’échancrure inter condylienne et du

pivot central. "

I have found this translated on the Website of another French prosthesis

manufacturer simply as chisel or bone chisel but I have a film of the

procedure and the instrument has a cross-section of about two thirds of

a circle and in most cases will probably remove the ablated bone as it

is withdrawn. At the moment I an inclined to use the English " gouge " but

perhaps there is a better term. When used the instrument is held in a

cutting guide as it is hammered in.

faux:

as in the sentence below:

La hauteur de coupe est néanmoins vérifiée à l’aide de la faux.

In the film the " faux " is a curved metal " feeler " inserted through the

cutting guide against the surface of the bone to check that it is

correctly positioned before using an oscillating saw.

I can find no reference anywhere to a " faux " as a surgical instrument

except in " le grande dictionnaire terminologique " which gives " a curved

bistoury " which from the film is evidently not the case here.

Many thanks for any help.