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Suture distal locking

US8821492B2 · kind B2 · utility

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4Claims

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Assignee

DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. · US

Inventors

Nicolas Bouduban · Lenzburg, CH
Patrick Burki · Gossau, CH
Reto Nardini · Grenchen, CH

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 30, 2013
Grant date	Sep 2, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 30, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B17/1725
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A system for locking an intramedullary nail to a bone includes a first plate sized and shaped to be inserted through a channel of an intramedullary nail and dimensioned to prevent its passing through a locking hole of the intramedullary nail and a second plate sized and shaped to be positioned along a portion of an exterior of a hole drilled in the bone and dimensioned to prevent its passing through the hole drilled in the bone along with a connector couplable to the first and second plates and slidable through the channel of the intramedullary nail to extend through the locking hole from an interior of the channel to an exterior of a bone in which the intramedullary nail has been inserted.

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