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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 1986
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael E Dewar, London, GB;
Assignee:
University College London, London, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128 / ; 128 / ;
Abstract
A fracture reduction apparatus comprises a first holder for holding first set of bone fixation pins, and a second holder for holding a second set of bone fixation pins, the first and second sets of bone fixation pins being located, in use, with the site of the fracture intermediate them. Each of the holders is rotatable about a respective set of three orthogonal axes, the three axes of each set intersecting one another at a respective point located in the bone, the two respective points being spaced from one another along the longitudinal axis of the bone.