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US 2004/0111090 A1Published application
Modification of percutaneous intrafocal plate system
AssigneeThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
InventorLaurence E. Dahners
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AssigneeThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
InventorLaurence E. Dahners
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An intrafocal plate for securing bone fractures comprising a plate element having a flat surface at one end thereof defining a top and a bottom and a leading end and a trailing end. A longitudinally extending resilient body element is connected at one end thereof adjacent to but spaced apart from the trailing end of the flat surface so as to define an overhanging heel between the resilient body element and the trailing end of the flat surface. The body element is formed so as to extend generally in the lengthwise direction of the flat surface and so as the other end of the body element defines a pin element. The overhanging heel formed between the juncture of the body element and the plate element and the trailing edge of the plate element serves to prevent over reduction of a fracture and to generally stabilize the intrafocal plate when inserted into a fracture site of a bone.
A longitudinally extending intrafocal plate for securing bone fractures, said intrafocal plate comprising an elongated plate element having a flat surface at one end thereof defining a top and a bottom and a leading end and a trailing end, and having a longitudinally extending resilient body element connected at one end thereof adjacent to but spaced apart from the trailing end of the flat surface so as to define an overhanging heel between the resilient body element and the trailing end of the flat surface, said body element being formed so as to extend generally in the lengthwise direction of the flat surface and wherein the other end of the body element defines a pin element.
An intrafocal plate for securing bone fractures, said intrafocal plate comprising an elongated plate element having a flat surface at one end thereof defining a top and a bottom and a leading end and a trailing end, and having a longitudinally extending resilient body element connected at one end thereof adjacent to but spaced apart from the trailing end of the flat surface so as to define an overhanging heel between the resilient body element and the trailing end of the flat surface, and the other end of the body element defining a pin, said intrafocal plate including one or more screws for insertion through the one or more apertures defined in the flat surface of the plate element.
A longitudinally extending intrafocal plate for securing metaphyseal bone fractures, said intrafocal plate comprising an elongated plate element having a flat surface at one end thereof with one or more apertures therein and defining a top and a bottom and a leading end and a trailing end, and having a longitudinally extending resilient body element depending from the trailing end of the flat surface so that the body element forms an acute angle with the flat surface and extends generally in the lengthwise direction of the flat surface, the body element being connected adjacent to but spaced apart from the trailing end of the flat surface so as to define an overhanging heel between the body element and the trailing end of the flat surface, the body element defining a shoulder at one end at the juncture of the body element and the flat surface and a pin at the other end of the body element.
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