Patent ID: 6461360
Filing Date: 2002-10-08
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A locking nail for the repair of femur shaft fractures, also in connection with trochanteric femur fractures, the locking nail being adapted for the introduction into the medullary space of the femur starting from the trochanter major, the locking nail comprising a proximal nail section and a distal nail section adjoining the latter, with the nail sections having bores for the reception of bone screws, and with the distal nail section, before insertion into the femur, having a curvature extending in an anterior-posterior plane and corresponding substantially to the antecurvature of the femur, wherein the proximal nail section has at least over a partial section a continuous curvature with constant radius of curvature, extending in a lateral-medial plane, and wherein the proximal nail section includes at least one bore inclined such that a bone screw can be introduced through said bore into the femur neck.