Stryker Leibinger Gmbh & Co Kg

Stryker European Operations Limited

Jürgen Rettich

Manfred Schmuck

Karl Greiner

Ingo Stoltenberg

Holger Von Wieding

Denis Digeser

Jürgen Kraus

Von Wieding Holger

Ingo Lederer

Viktor Kraft

Christian KNÖPFLE

Uwe KÖRNER

A drill guide for a bone plate which has holes therethrough for receiving bone screws. The drill guide includes a guide block having drill guide bores alignable with at least two bone screw receiving holes in the bone plate. A first locking element in inserted through a guide block drill guide bore. The locking element has a tip for engaging a bone screw receiving holes in the bone plate, the tip being selectively expandable to engage and disengage from the bone plate hole. A second locking element is mounted on the guide block and is engageable with a bone plate hole. The second locking element also has a tip for resiliently engaging walls of the bone plate hole wherein the tip of the first and second locking elements has a split portion. The first and second locking elements include an axially moveable rod for expanding the split tip portion to engage the plate

Bone plate instrument and method

What is described is a surgical instrument for manipulating a bent surgical wire. The surgical instrument is particularly suitable for inserting one or both ends of a wire, which is bent in the shape of a U, in apertures provided for that purpose in a bone plate. The instrument possesses two jaws that can be moved relative to one another for the purpose of generating a gripping force, at least one of the jaws having a wire-receiving device which positions a bent wire, which is to be received, in a plane substantially parallel to the direction of gripping force.

Surgical instrument for manipulating a bent wire

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Mühlheim, Germany

Jürgen Rettich