ORTHOPEDIC PLATE FOR USE IN SMALL BONE REPAIR

摘要

The present invention relates to a series of orthopedic plates for use in repair of a bone. The plate has a Y-shaped profile or an X-shaped profile which includes an elongate central trunk with a complex contour and either one or two terminal pairs of arms that have a first arm and a second arm that form differing angles and lengths relative to the trunk portion of the plate. The arms include locking screw holes where the screws converge toward each other to provide for multiplanar fixation but which do not impinge.

主权项

1. An orthopedic plate system comprising at least one screw and an orthopedic clavicle plate having an inferior surface which is capable of facing a clavicle bone surface in use and which is pre-contoured to accommodate the shape of that bone surface and an oppositely facing concentric superior surface, the plate having a central trunk portion defining a longitudinal trunk axis extending between a first end and a second end and having at least a portion of the inferior surface which includes a curve transverse to the longitudinal axis, said plate including at the first end a pair of divergent arms which extend so as to form a left arm and a right arm, each arm including an arm screw hole which defines a central screw hole axis and each arm being joined to the trunk portion by a link, each arm of the pair having a longitudinal arm axis which extends between the central screw hole axis and the longitudinal trunk axis defining an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the trunk area and the angle of the left arm being α and the angle of the right arm being β where α is different than β such that the central screw hole axis of the right arm converges toward but does not impinge on the central screw hole axis of the left arm and wherein the plate has a medial line which describes an S-curve in the lateral plane or in the longitudinal plane.