Lee A. STRNAD,Dustin DUCHARME,Andrew J. LEITHER,Derek S. LEWIS,Amanda MARTIN
申请号：
US15593860
公开号：
US20170245870A1
申请日:
2017.05.12
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
A surgical drill guide for positioning, aligning, and of holes to be drilled in bone tissue has retaining means that holds the position and alignment of the drill guide body in a releasable manner with respect to a fastener hole in an orthopedic implant. The retaining means is a key guide that mates with a key way or key ways in or around a threaded locking hole of an orthopedic plate for alignment of a pilot hole and method of using the guide. The key guide has 2 to 8 projections that extend in the direction of the axis of the hole, such as hemi cylindrical projections, and the plate has a corresponding female key way that receives the retaining means. The invention also relates to a method of aligning a locking fastener in a plate at a desired angle relative to a bone by using a surgical guide having a key interface with the plate to position and align a pilot hole.
