Flexible intramedullary rod

摘要

An elongated rod for insertion into a bowed canal of a bone such as a femoral medulla of a femur bone, wherein the canal is bowed in one plane. The rod has a longitudinal axis disposed on a first plane and one or more cutouts formed in at least a portion of a length of the rod and on opposite sides of the first plane. The rod is flexible along a second plane which is co-planar with the bowed canal plane and which is disposed on the longitudinal axis and perpendicular to the first plane.

主权项

1. A surgical instrument comprising:
an elongated rod having a longitudinal axis disposed on a first plane and a second plane; a plurality of diametrically opposed cutouts formed in at least a portion of a length of the rod and on both proximal and distal portions of the length of the rod along the longitudinal axis, the proximal and distal portions being on separate halves of the rod separated by a transverse plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, wherein the cutouts lack communication through the rod, and wherein the rod is flexible along the second plane which is perpendicular to the first plane, the second plane intersecting the cutouts; and one or more grooves each formed in and extending along at least one of the proximal and distal portions of the length of the rod.