Regulations last checked for updates: May 02, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Apr 28, 2025
§ 888.3560 - Knee joint patellofemorotibial polymer/metal/polymer semi-constrained cemented prosthesis.

(a) Identification. A knee joint patellofemorotibial polymer/metal/polymer semi-constrained cemented prosthesis is a device intended to be implanted to replace a knee joint. The device limits translation and rotation in one or more planes via the geometry of its articulating surfaces. It has no linkage across-the-joint. This generic type of device includes prostheses that have a femoral component made of alloys, such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum, and a tibial component or components and a retropatellar resurfacing component made of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. This generic type of device is limited to those prostheses intended for use with bone cement (§ 888.3027).

(b) Classification. Class II.

authority: 21 U.S.C. 351,360,360c,360e,360j,360
source: 52 FR 33702, Sept. 4, 1987, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 888.3560