DEVICE FOR MAKING POSTERIOR SPONDYLODESIS Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medical engineering.

SUBSTANCE: device has plates having longitudinal segmentally counterbored slots and fastening members manufactured as bone screws with clamps. The clamps are manufactured as cramps having threaded openings in lower shelf. Locking members are mounted in threaded openings of the clamps. The locking members have threaded heads, hexagonal slot and smooth conic part set in hexagonal bone screw head slots. The bone screws are set in longitudinal segmentally counterbored slots of the plates. Their narrow parts under the heads pass through slits in the lower shelves of the clamps. The plates are connected to each other with cross-bar manufactured as rod ending with hook on one end which upper shelf has threaded hole for receiving locking member having threaded head, hexagonal slot and smooth thrusting part for fixing the cross-bar to a plate, the other free cross-bar end having corrugated part, has cross-bar clamp manufactured as cramps having threaded opening in upper shelf for receiving locking member having threaded head, hexagonal slot and smooth thrusting part supported by corrugated surface of the cross-bar to fix the cross-bar to the second plate. A hole is available in the upright connecting crossbar clamp shelves. The corrugated free crossbar end is movable and fixable in the hole.

EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness of treatment; reduced risk of traumatic complications; avoided blood deposit under plates.

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