Figure 2.

Although the female-male taper design in the Global Modular Replacement System (GMRS, Stryker) system has been abandoned for humeral intercalary spacers, it has been retained for the femoral intercalary spacers, where distraction is not as much of an issue due to the capacity of the thigh soft tissues and sciatic nerve to accommodate it. The intercalary GMRS femoral device shown here (right) has a female body component that can be assembled to any male stem (left) component (with or without body) to serve as an intercalary reconstructive endoprosthesis (Figures used with permission of Stryker)