Hip file carrier with a movable jaw

File carrier which is constituted by a substantially sleeve-like member and which comprises a proximal holding portion and an intermediate portion which extends along a longitudinal axis which is inclined or which forms an angle with the longitudinal axis of the proximal portion, the distal end of the intermediate portion being intended to retain a file which is substantially in the form of an anchoring brace of a hip prosthesis having a medullary axis, an anteroposterior axis and a mediolateral axis, the retention being such that the medullary axis is substantially parallel with the axis of the proximal portion and is displaced relative thereto so that the angle between the medullary axis and the longitudinal axis of the intermediate portion in the plane formed by those two axes is between 40° and 70°;

• wherein a fixed jaw and a pivotable jaw are arranged at the distal end of the intermediate portion;
• means for controlling the movement of the pivotable jaw relative to the fixed jaw between a closed state in which the file is fixed in position on the file carrier and an open state in which the file is released from the file carrier;
• and wherein the position of the pivotable jaw in the open state is displaced in the mediolateral direction relative to the position of the pivotable jaw in the closed state.