Bone plate system for repair of proximal humeral fracture

Patent Number: 9387020

Patent Date: 2016-07-12

Patent type: utility

A bone plate system for repair of a proximal humeral head fracture, which includes a fixation plate having a main body and a depending alignment flange, a plurality of elongated compression screws to extend through the intact humeral head into the cortical bone of the fractured portion and a cover plate. With the fixation plate in place, fastened to the humerus, the cover plate is in turn fastened to the fixation plate and provides a defined amount of clearance in a region adjacent the heads of the compression screws to allow measured back-out of the screws upon settling of the fractured bone portion at the fracture site.

Inventors

First Name Last Name City State Country
William B. Geissler - - -
Linda C. Cooper - - -

IPCs

Section Class Sub Class Group Sub Group
A 61 B 17 80
A 61 B 17 86

Assignee

Organization First Name Last Name City State Country
Ascension Orthopedics, Inc. - - - - -