The locking nail for the repair of femur shaft fractures, also in connection with trochanteric femur fractures, comprises a proximal nail section (2) and a distal nail section (3) adjoining the latter, with the nail sections (2, 3) having bores (2e, 2f, 2h, 2i, 3a, 3b, 3c) for the reception of bone screws, and with the distal nail section (3) having a curvature extending in an anterior-posterior plane (apE) and corresponding substantially to the antecurvature of the femur, with the proximal nail section (2) having at least over a partial section (2a, 2b) a continuous curvature, in particular with constant radius of curvature (R2), extending in a lateral-medial plane (lmE).

A bone resection tool for resecting an end of a bone along a surface having a curvature comprises a guide (10), a cutting tool (100,200) and a track follower (110). The guide is configured to be removably attached in a fixed position to the end of the bone. The guide is configured to include a track (58) exhibiting a curvature generally corresponding to the curvature of the surface to be resected in the bone. The cutting tool includes a cutting face. The track follower is configured to couple to the cutting tool and cooperate with the track to facilitate reciprocation of the cutting tool relative to the guide to induce the cutting face to resect the bone along the surface having the curvature.

A bone resection tool for resecting an end of a bone along a surface having a curvature comprises a guide (10), a cutting tool (100,200) and a track follower (110). The guide is configured to be removably attached in a fixed position to the end of the bone. The guide is configured to include a track (58) exhibiting a curvature generally corresponding to the curvature of the surface to be resected in the bone. The cutting tool includes a cutting face. The track follower is configured to couple to the cutting tool and cooperate with the track to facilitate reciprocation of the cutting tool relative to the guide to induce the cutting face to resect the bone along the surface having the curvature.

The device has a flange (3) and an elongated body (2) comprising a longitudinal slit (4) with an upper part and a lower part (7). The upper part permits the introduction of a suture thread or a ligament and the part (7) permits the sliding of the thread or the ligament. The flange has a height smaller than dimension of its support surface. The body has a cylindrical part elongated by a conical part (10) comprising a rounded end (11).

The device has a flange (3) and an elongated body (2) comprising a longitudinal slit (4) with an upper part and a lower part (7). The upper part permits the introduction of a suture thread or a ligament and the part (7) permits the sliding of the thread or the ligament. The flange has a height smaller than dimension of its support surface. The body has a cylindrical part elongated by a conical part (10) comprising a rounded end (11).

A clamping tool comprises first and second clamping components (18, 20) able to be displaced relative to each other by a drive device made up of: (A) a screw (10), able to rotate around an axis (XX) in opposing directions by means of a motor (M), with a nut (12) co-operating with the screw and which can be rotated in the direction of the axis of the screw, the screw being coupled in translation to the first clamping component; (B) a first guidance mechanism (34L) defining linear guidance parallel to the axis of the screw to rotationally block the nut in a first phase of nut displacement; (C) a second guidance mechanism (34H) defining helicoidal guidance extending according to the axis of the screw and which has an inverted thread in relation to that of the screw to enable the nut to rotate in the same direction as the screw in a second nut displacement phase; (D) in addition a compensation system (46) is arranged between the first clamping component and a mobile suppor! t (14) coupled to the nut to re-initialise the position of the first clamping component in relation to the second clamping component, such that the first and second displacement phases remain synchronous with the phases which are required to optimise displacement of the first clamping component.

The clamping table for workpieces includes a clamping elements next to each other, and each with a telescopic tube unit (10) including a top suction cup (11). Its concentric tubes (13, 14) are kept co-axial to the telescopic tube unit by a positioning drive (12), with the aid of a positive plug-in coupling device (25), and is plugged into a power supply.

The present disclosure relates to a clip manufactured according to a method which can be used to engage body tissue for the purpose of closing wounds. Such clips are generally annular in shape and have radially inwardly extending tines. The present disclosure first forms a precursor which, in one embodiment, has the tines extending radially outwardly from the annular body and then forms the clip by inverting the precursor such that the tines extend radially inwardly. In an alternate embodiment, the precursor is formed with an over-sized lateral dimension and then compressed inwardly to bring the tines closer together and to reduce the lateral dimension of the precursor. Such clips may be manufactured from a superelastic alloy such as nickel-titanium, in which case the inverted or compressed precursor must be heated and quenched to heat set the clip in its final shape.

An osteosynthesis plate for the pressure stabilization of bone fragments. To obtain great compression lengths without the need for a separate compression device. The plate is provided in each of its sections allocated to a bone fragment with two elongate slots which each contain several ramp hole sections, the pitch spacings of the ramp hole sections belonging to the same elongate slot being not greater than the number of the elongate slots allocated to the same bone fragment, multiplied by the useful ramp lengths. In general, two elongate slots suffice, in which the useful ramp length corresponds in each case to half a pitch spacing.

A rapid closure tube clamp comprises a clamp jaw (5), with clamping and open positions; a holder (7); a spring (17) pressing the jaw against the holder, so that releasing the spring brings the jaw into the clamping position; a device (11, 13) for bolting the jaw and holder together against the spring pressure; and a restoring mechanism (19) for moving the holder relative to the jaw into the bolting/clamping position and moving the jaw and holder together in the open position to be bolted together.