Attachment device for a bone plate
AssigneeStryker Trauma GmbH
InventorAlexis Christen
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Abstract
An attachment device for attaching a bone plate to a bone having a medullary canal is provided. The attachment device comprises a central portion having a recess to accommodate the bone plate and at least two lateral fixation support members projecting from the central portion. The lateral fixation support members are arranged on opposite sides of the central portion, wherein each lateral fixation support member comprises a hole extending through the lateral fixation support member and are adapted to accommodate a fixation element therethrough to fix the attachment device to bone. The angles of the hole axes of the holes are different with respect to a perpendicular bisector of the centers of the holes and the hole axes lie outside of the medullary canal.
Claims17
An attachment device for fixing a bone plate to a bone having a medullary canal, the attachment device comprising:
- a central body portion forming a recess to accommodate at least a portion of the bone plate;
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- two lateral fixation support members arranged on opposite sides of the central body portion, the two lateral fixation support members each having a first hole with a hole axis, at least a portion of the first holes adapted to accommodate a fixation element therethrough for anchoring the attachment device to the bone,
- wherein a first bisector line of the central body portion passes through both hole axes of the first holes,
- wherein the hole axis of one of the first holes is angled with respect to the first bisector line at a first angle and the hole axis of the other of the first holes is angled with respect to the first bisector line at a second angle, the first angle being different than the second angle, and
- wherein when the bone plate is located in the recess of the central body portion the hole axes of the first holes lie outside of the medullary canal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.