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Alternatively, or in addition, a surgeon may save time in the operating room because an imaging machine such as a C-arm may not be needed to check positioning and/or trajectory before the surgical procedure proceeds. Once the tendon trajectory guide 920 is registered to the dorsal surface of the calcaneus 224 the surgeon is assured that deployment of a hole, opening, bone tunnel, or fastener 910 through the trajectory port 924 will match a location / trajectory determine preoperatively. Thus, many of the challenges of determining the superior target marker 1008 are overcome using the tendon trajectory guide 920.

Added by DJM Jan 2024