DEVICE FOR EXTERNAL FIXATION OF SHAFT FRACTURES OF TUBULAR BONES Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61B17/80 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: device comprises a plate transversely folded with a bend radius equal to the width of the plate, and has pointed long edges, and in the middle of an apex of the transverse fold from both ends, there are edge holes with the cylindrical thread inclined to the centre of the plate - the upper one -downwards, and the lower one upwards - at an angle of 30 degrees. Threaded screw holes are arranged in the line of the plate along the apex of the fold from both ends and separated by a solid body of the plate at ј of its length at an alternating angle towards the sides of a bone axis along the whole length at the distance from each other equal to a screw head diameter with a number dependent on the plate length for introducing a retention screw with a head whereon there is a cylindrical thread with a unfinished upper coil matched with the thread of the plate hole equal to the screw head diameter screwed in the plate.

EFFECT: invention provides reliable fixation, minimum contact of the plate and the bone surface, eliminating risk of bed sores and disturbed repair process, simplifying the fixation procedure.

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