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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2003
Markus Nesper, Tuttlingen, DE;
Klaus-dieter Steinhilper, Tuttlingen, DE;
Dieter Weisshaupt, Immendingen, DE;
Karl-dieter Lerch, Witten, DE;
Markus Nesper, Tuttlingen, DE;
Klaus-Dieter Steinhilper, Tuttlingen, DE;
Dieter Weisshaupt, Immendingen, DE;
Karl-Dieter Lerch, Witten, DE;
Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Abstract
In order to provide an implant for fixing adjacent bone plates, in particular cranial bone plates, which has an inner abutment element by means of which a separation gap between the bone plates can be overlapped at a bone plate inner side and has an outer abutment element for overlapping the separation gap at a bone plate outer side lying opposite the bone plate inner side and which is easy for a surgeon to use and by means of which the bone plates may be securely fixed, it is proposed that at least one tension band is guided displaceably through the outer abutment element, by means of which, when a tensile stress is exerted, the inner abutment element and the outer abutment element are mutually braceable, and that the at least one tension band is fixable on the outer abutment element.