Pin placement guide used in making a bone entry hole for implantation of an intramedullary nail

A pin placement guide for use in making an entry hole to implant an intramedullary nail across a fracture in an elongated bone the pin placement guide comprising:

• a base having a bone contact surface defining a said longitudinal axis;
• a guide portion attached to said base, and having a guide bore with a guide axis extending through said guide portion and said bone contact surface of said base;
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• said guide axis being at an angle of greater than zero but less than twenty degrees with respect to said longitudinal axis;
• a handle that includes a pilot bore with a pilot axis extending through said handle and said bone contact surface of said base;
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• said pilot bore and said guide bore being sized and arranged such that a tip of a guide pin inserted through said guide bore along said guide axis will enter a pilot hole in said elongated bone made by a drilling device inserted through said pilot bore along said pilot axis.

A pin placement guide for use in making an entry hole to implant an intramedullary nail across a fracture in an elongated bone, the pin placement guide comprising:

• a base having a bone contact surface defining a longitudinal axis;
• a guide portion attached to said bases and having a guide bore with a guide axis extending through said guide portion and said bone contact surface of said base;
• and
• said guide axis being at a fixed angle of greater than zero but less than twenty degrees with respect to said longitudinal axis;
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• said pin placement guide being machined from a single solid piece of a metallic alloy.