Patent ID: 8535314

Claim:
Surgical connecting element for fixing adjacently arranged bone plates, comprising: a first bearing element; a second bearing element; wherein the second bearing element has at least one holding tongue; and a coupling element for coupling the first and second bearing element to each other in such a way that bone plates lying between the first and second bearing element are fixable; wherein the coupling element has at least one fixing opening, in which the corresponding holding tongue of the second bearing element is engageable; and wherein at least one of the first and second bearing elements has a center panel generally conforming to a first plane and at least one side panel generally conforming to a second plane transverse to the first plane, the first plane and the second plane intersecting at an angle greater than 90 degrees, the at least one side panel and second plane being inclined toward the other of the first and second bearing elements, said at least one side panel being elastically deformable, and said center panel having a flat rectangular three-dimensional shape.