Patent ID: 8685022

Claim:
A device for the external fixation of bone fragments of a patient, particularly of the extremities, with a support, which can be arranged outside the body of the patient comprises: a plurality of directly stringed together joint elements forming the support; and at least two percutaneously arranged pins which are adapted to be anchored with their proximal end in the bone tissue of the patient, securable by their distal end and fixable in their spatial position relative to each other; which joint elements are stringed together on a central tensile force element, and two adjacent joint elements in each case together form a ball joint with a spherical cap and a joint socket, and the individual ball joints, and therefore the support, are reversibly fixable with a force fit, by frictional engagement, by applying a tensile force to the central tensile force element; and which joint elements are configured such that by applying the tensile force to the central tensile force element at least one percutaneously arranged pin is clamped directly between the joint elements while at the same time the individual ball joints, and therefore the support, are being reversibly fixed.