Patent ID: 7156847

Claim:
An apparatus for the correction of wall chest deformities such as “Pectus Carinatum”, comprising a bar having a flattened cross-section, capable of being appropriately curved, the material being 316-L steel having minimum bending strength of about 65 in.lb, minimum yield strength of 35×10 6 psi and bending stiffness of about 1000 lbs.in 2 , according to the values defined by ASTM F382-95, having two opposing ends associated to respective fixing plates provided in the medium portion of a receiving slot of the corresponding bar end and peripheral holes securing the bone parts of the costal arcs, wherein said bar and said fixing plates have substantially the same thickness, the bar end portions have the reduced thickness for respective planar grooves which consistently with the respective longitudinal axes have a plurality of regularly separated passing holes aligned therewith; and the fixing plates, being substantially rectangular, have in the respective slots cooperative attaching elements matching two consecutive holes on the tapered portion of the corresponding bar end, the wall thickness of each bar end portion and the wall thickness in the slot region of each plate having the same height, and said bar end portions and the respective fixing plates being linked by threaded elements, forming removable and axially registerable attachments.