A61B 17/848
Kirschner wires, i.e. thin, long nails
Official title: {Kirschner wires, i.e. thin, long nails}
A61B17/848 (Kirschner wires, i.e. thin, long nails) appears on 480 US grants and 602 published applications in this corpus.
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- Latest grant
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