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US 4,969,886 AGranted
Disposable fixing means especially for fixing factured small tubular bones externally
OwnerEndre Cziffer, Mihaly Szacsky +1inventors
InventorsEndre Cziffer, Mihaly Szacsky, Tibor Bagits
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Abstract
A disposable fixing device serving for an external fixation of fractured small tubular bones includes rods having a generally circular cross-section and at least one flattened face and provided with a plurality of bores spaced apart and traversing the rod through the entire width thereof and a plurality of pins introduced into the fractured bone by one end thereof and connected with the respective bores of the rod by an opposite end upon sealing each of the pins to the opposite sides of the respective rod.
Claims5
An apparatus for spanning a fracture for fixing bones, comprising:
- a soft metal elongated flexible rod having a longitudinal axis freely bendable over its entire length, said rod having a generally circular cross-section and being formed with at least one elongated continuous flattened face parallel to said axis and extending substantially over an entire length of said rod;
- a plurality of equidistantly spaced apart bores formed in said rod opening at said flattened face and extending through said rod perpendicular to said axis;
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- a plurality of pins passing through respective ones of said bores, penetrating said bores and extending generally perpendicular to said flattened face of said rod, said pins being held in said rod by squeezed in portions of the rod in the region of said bores.
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