Plate to Nail Alignment Pin/K-Wire
AssigneesStryker Trauma GmbH, Stryker European Operations Limited
InventorsNils Zander, Manfred Wieland, Hendrik Kluever
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Abstract
A method for aligning an aiming block with respect to a bone includes driving a bone screw into a bone to pass a tip of the bone screw through a hole of an intramedullary nail and to anchor a head of the bone screw in a cortical region of the bone; inserting a pin extending from a surface of an aiming block through a hole of a bone plate; and contacting the pin against the head of the bone screw to align the hole of the bone plate with the head of the bone screw.
Claims20
A method for aligning an aiming block with respect to a bone comprising:
- driving a bone screw into a bone to pass a tip of the bone screw through a hole of an intramedullary nail and to anchor a head of the bone screw in a cortical region of the bone;
- inserting a pin extending from a surface of an aiming block through a hole of a bone plate;
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- contacting the pin against the head of the bone screw to align the hole of the bone plate with the head of the bone screw.
A method of aligning an aiming block with respect to a bone comprising:
- drilling a hole in a cortical region of a bone;
- inserting a pin extending from a surface of an aiming block through a hole of a bone plate;
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- locating the pin within the hole in the cortical region of the bone.
A method for aligning an aiming block with respect to a bone comprising:
- inserting an intramedullary nail into a medullary canal of a bone;
- inserting a k-wire into the bone and through a hole of the intramedullary nail;
- placing a hole of a bone plate and an aligned hole extending through an aiming block over an end of the k-wire;
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- guiding the bone plate and the aiming block along the k-wire to contact an inner surface of the bone plate to the bone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.