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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2007
Karl-dieter Lerch, Witten, DE;
Manfred Fischer, Tuttlingen, DE;
Klaus-dieter Steinhilper, Tuttlingen, DE;
Dieter Weisshaupt, Immendingen, DE;
Karl-Dieter Lerch, Witten, DE;
Manfred Fischer, Tuttlingen, DE;
Klaus-Dieter Steinhilper, Tuttlingen, DE;
Dieter Weisshaupt, Immendingen, DE;
Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, DE;
Abstract
In order to configure, in such a way as to be capable of being employed in a simple and secure manner and produced cost-effectively, a surgical connecting element for fixing adjacently arranged bone plates, comprising a first bearing element, a second bearing element and a coupling element, by means of which the first and second bearing element can be coupled to each other in such a way that bone plates lying between the first and second bearing element can be fixed, it is proposed that the second bearing element and the coupling element be so designed and adapted to each other that, by relative movement between the coupling element and the second bearing element transversely to a clamping direction, the bone plates are fixable between the first and the second bearing element.