Patent ID: 7674264

Claim:
In a surgical appliance for repairing fractures of the scaphoid bone in a human wrist having vise means comprising upper and lower spaced apart jaws that are transparent to x-ray radiation and are relatively movable toward and away from one another for retaining there between at least a portion of a human wrist and means interconnecting the upper and lower jaws for selectively fixing the spacing between the jaws, the improvement comprising, a recess in the upper jaw having a floor with a central opening therein, a mounting block adjustably disposed in the upper jaw recess, said block having a circular cavity therein that is superimposed over the recess floor opening and having a peripheral annular flange, a circular disk removably disposed in the circular cavity and supported for rotation therein by the peripheral annular flange, and a plurality of bores angularly disposed in the circular disk, the longitudinal axes of said bores being all directed to the opening in the recess floor.