Prosthesis for reducing and locking limb bone fractures

Details Prosthesis for reducing and locking limb bone fractures Prosthesis for reducing and locking limb bone fractures

1990-06-08

1992-07-14

Isabella, David J.

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 56, 606 57, 623 16, A61F 504

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051298988

ABSTRACT:
A prosthesis comprising two tubular brackets connected in sliding manner and securable by means of pins to the ends of the fractured bone. The two brackets are connected by means of a flexible cable the ends of which the connected by a cable tensioning device. The cable is guided by a series of circumferential grooves arranged alternately on the two brackets, and is tightened by the cable tensioning device in such a manner as to exert, between the two brackets and in one operation, a traction or compression force evenly distributed along the brackets.

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patent: 4628922 (1986-12-01), Dewar
patent: 4643177 (1987-02-01), Sheppard et al.
patent: 4936843 (1990-06-01), Sohngen

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