Smith & Nephew Richards Inc.

John E Herzenberg

Dror Paley

James E Orsak

Leonel Dominguez

Marietta I Crosslin

A drill guide and method for guiding placement of external fixation pins in the bone of a human limb to avoid an implanted intramedullary nail with the drill guide having a plurality of guide holes adapted to guide and receive a bone drill bit and bone pins. The drill guide also includes connecting for connecting the drill guide to one end of a drill guide handle connected to an intramedullary nail implanted in the bone and for aligning the guide holes in a fixed position relative to the nail so that the hole centerlines are oriented to avoid the nail.

Drill guide and method for avoiding intramedullary nails in the

This invention relates to a device and method to externally fix bone fractures and bone deformities by moving an arc gear member, which is attached to a first bone segment, through an arc shaped path so as to place the first bone segment in the desired position relative to a second bone segment.

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Owings Mills, MD, United States of America

John E Herzenberg