Adjustable clamp for bone fixation element

Details Adjustable clamp for bone fixation element Adjustable clamp for bone fixation element

1997-06-10

1998-04-21

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 56, A61B 1762

Patent

active

057412529

ABSTRACT:
A clamp for fixing bone pins or wires to an external frame is disclosed. The clamp has a central post, an upper vise plate and a lower vise plate urged together on the post, by a spring for provisional placement, a nut for positively locking the vise plates together on a frame, and a pin clamp that can be moved along the axis of the central post, and can receive and clamp either a bone pin or a bone wire. The pin or wire has unlimited angular movement in two planes. The clamp is a captive unit that requires no intraoperative assembly.

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