Patent ID: 7563263

Claim:
A bone fracture fixation device for a long bone having a metaphysis with an exterior surface and a diaphysis with a medullary canal, comprising: a) an elongate intramedullary nail portion having a circular cross section and including a relatively flexible section and a relatively rigid section relatively larger in diameter than said relatively flexible section, said rigid section including at least one screw hole; b) a plate portion having a bone contacting lower surface and including a plurality of fastener holes each structured to constrain an associated fastener at a fixed angle relative to said plate portion, said fixed angles being oblique relative to each other so as to direct associated fasteners in a relatively divergent orientation, wherein said plate portion is not coaxial with said nail portion; and c) a neck portion joining said relatively rigid section of said nail portion and said plate portion, said neck portion longitudinally and laterally offsetting said plate portion relative to said nail portion, wherein when the nail portion is implanted in the medullary canal of the diaphysis of the long bone, the neck portion offsets the lower surface of said plate so that the lower surface of the plate contacts the exterior surface of the metaphysis of the long bone.