Drill guide with alignment feature

A spinal fixation kit, comprising:

• a spinal plate having at least one screw bore formed therein for receiving a fastening element effective to mate the spinal plate to at least one vertebrae, and at least one graft window formed therein;
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• a guide member having at least one lumen extending therethrough, and at least one alignment element, at least one of the alignment elements being adapted to interact with the graft window in the spinal plate to align the at least one lumen in the guide member with the at least one screw bore formed in the spinal plate.

An adjustable guide device for use with a spinal plate, comprising:

• an elongate shaft having a proximal end and a distal end that is slidably coupled to a support member, the support member being adapted to rigidly engage a spinal plate;
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• a guide member coupled to a distal portion of the elongate shaft and including at least one lumen extending therethrough that is adapted to be aligned with a corresponding screw bore in a spinal plate when the support member is engaged to a spinal plate.

A spinal fixation kit, comprising:

• a spinal plate having a plurality of longitudinally spaced screw bore regions formed therein, each screw bore region containing a pair of laterally spaced screw bores positioned between opposed, transversely extending guide contact surfaces;
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• a guide member having a pair of guide lumens formed therethrough, and opposed alignment elements formed thereon in fixed relation to one another such that the opposed alignment elements can interact with opposed guide contact surfaces in any one of the plurality of screw bore regions to align the pair of guide lumens in the guide member with a pair of screw bores in the spinal plate.