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Balloon compressor for internal fixation of bone fractures

  • US 5,658,310 A
  • Filed: 06/05/1995
  • Issued: 08/19/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An assembly for setting fractured bones comprising a balloon catheter with a tubing having an inner lumen and an inflatable balloon secured to said tubing at the distal end thereof, said balloon being in fluid communication with the lumen of said tubing, a guide wire mounted to said balloon and means separate from said balloon catheter adapted to be mounted in a portion of said fractured bone distal from said balloon to receive said tubing and hold said balloon catheter when said balloon is inflated in a fixed stressed condition to provide compression on the fracture side of fractured bone portions and a fluid discharge means connected to said balloon catheter and communicating with said tubing lumen to allow fluid discharge from said fluid discharge means into said tubing lumen to inflate the balloon of said balloon catheter.

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