Aesculap Ag & Co Kg

Ingo Vom Berg

Dieter Weisshaupt

Theodor Lutze

Manfred Fischer

Gebhard Herrmann

Ulrich Fink

Paul Wieneke

To design as simply as possible an implant for fixing a bone plate in an opening of a bone plate and to avoid use of a complicated applicator, it is proposed that the implant be designed as a U-shaped clip, with a bridge and two contact arms protruding transversely from the bridge, the contact arms being capable of receiving a bone plate between them and thereby fixing the clip on the bone plate with the contact arms lying against the upper side and the lower side, respectively, of the bone plate, and with at least one projection on the outer side of the bridge facing away from the contact arms for fixing the clip on the other bone plate, so that a displacement of the clip relative to the other bone plate in the longitudinal direction of the bridge is prevented in at least one direction.

Implant for fixing a bone plate

In order to achieve as uniform a distribution of pressure as possible during the application to the brain of a brain spatula with a band-like strip consisting of a pliable and inherently stable material it is suggested that the strip be enveloped by a soft, elastically deformable material which projects laterally beyond the strip at the side edges of the strip and the deformability of which increases from the side edges of the strip towards the edge of the soft material.

Brain spatula

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Ingo Vom Berg