- Discussion:
- specially designed to be bent and twisted in two dimensions;
- hence they are useful for the pelvis;
- already low strength of the plate is further diminshed by three
dimensinal bending;
- bending angles greater than 15 deg at any one site must be avoided;
- oval holes permit self compression & accept both
4.5 mm cortex screws
and
6.5 mm cancellous bone screws;
-
plates are available with 3 to 16 holes;
- thickness 2.8 mm
- width 12 mm
- hole spacing 16 mm;
