Bone-joining articles

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1992-10-14

1994-01-04

Hafer, Robert A.

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 77, A61B 1700

Patent

active

052756025

ABSTRACT:
The invention provides an article for joining the pieces of a fractured bone, characterized in that the article is composed of a high-molecular weight material which is absorbable in the living body and that the article is in the form of a tubular body having a hollow interior and a cutout extending over the entire length of the tubular body in the longitudinal direction thereof.

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patent: 4968317 (1990-11-01), Tormala et al.
patent: 5007939 (1991-04-01), Delcommune et al.
Article by Nicholas Senn, M.D., Transcript of speech to ASA, May 30, 1893.

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