FDA Classifies Voluntary Shapematch® Cutting Guides Recall as Class I Recall

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FDA Classifies Voluntary Shapematch® Cutting Guides Recall as Class I Recall

04/10/2013 04:41 PM EDT

Stryker Corporation (NYSE:SYK)announced today that its orthopaedic division has received notice that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed the voluntary recall of its ShapeMatch Cutting Guides and that it will be classified as a Class I recall. ShapeMatch Cutting Guides are intended to be used as patient specific surgical instrumentation to assist in the positioning of total knee replacement components intraoperatively and in guiding the marking of bone before cutting.

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