Medical bone screw and implant system
AssigneeAesculap AG
InventorsStephan Lindner, Jens Schneider
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Abstract
An implant system includes an acetabular implant and a bone screw having an articulated screw head which allows an unchanged contact position of the screw head on the acetabular implant when the bone screw is aligned relative to the acetabular implant. For this purpose, a slotted hole is made in the acetabular implant in which slotted hole the bone screw can be pivoted in longitudinal direction of the slotted hole.
Claims13
An implant system comprising at least a medical bone screw and a hip-joint acetabular implant having at least one first clearance hole through which the medical bone screw can be inserted in such a way that the medical bone screw can be pivoted at least in one direction of the at least one first clearance hole, wherein
- the medical bone screw has a shaft-shaped bone thread part for fastening the hip joint acetabular implant to a patient bone, which has a core diameter and an outer-thread diameter and at the proximal end of which a two-part, angle-adjustable head part is connected,
- the two-part, angle-adjustable head part is formed from a head piece, which is formed in one piece with the bone-thread part, which is preferably rotationally symmetrical, more preferably partially spherical, and a head piece provided separately from the bone-thread part,
- the head piece provided separately from the bone-thread part has an upper side and a lower side, and a second clearance hole having an undercut or a funnel shape or tulip shape is formed therein, and
- the second clearance hole has a proximal clearance-hole diameter at the upper side and a distal clearance-hole diameter at the lower side,
- wherein
- the second clearance hole furthermore has an inner thread with an inner-thread diameter between the upper side and the lower side, the inner thread corresponding to the outer thread of the shaft-shaped bone-thread part,
- wherein the inner-thread diameter is greater than the outer-thread diameter and the distal clearance-hole diameter is greater than the core diameter, and
- by screwing the shaft-shaped bone thread part into the second clearance hole, the shaft-shaped bone-thread part is inserted into the head piece provided separately from the bone-thread part, in such a way that the head piece formed in one piece with the latter rests in an axially fixed manner on the undercut or in the funnel shape or tulip shape, but a pivoting movement of the shaft-shaped bone thread part with respect to the separate head piece is allowed in at least one or exclusively one pivoting plane.
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