Treace Olive Wire with Drill Tip
Olive wire with drill tip · Short olive wire · Olive Wire
A short olive wire with a drill tip, used through the drill guides that come pre-installed in Treace (TMC) plates.
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What it’s for
Lapidus and other TMC plate fusions. Short olive wires placed through the plate's drill guides hold the plate on the bone and show the locking screw path on fluoroscopyfloo-ROS-kuh-peeAn x-ray method that shows moving pictures of the inside of the body in real time.fluor/o glowing (from the fluorescent screen)-scopy looking, viewingFull entry . The olive wire with drill tip also drills through each drill guide and plate hole to the depth wanted; then the drill guide is removed and the locking screw is placed. The short olive wires come out before the last screws go in.
Lengths and variants
Treace lists a short (1405-2001) and a long (1405-2218) olive wire with drill tip.
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3 sources
- Treace Medical Concepts. TMC Plating System Surgical Technique, Lapidus Fusion (LBL 1405-9001). p. 3-4, 6, 8: lapiplasty.com
- U.S. National Library of Medicine. AccessGUDID, Olive wire with drill tip short, 1405-2001 (Treace Medical Concepts): accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov
- AccessGUDID, Olive wire with drill tip long, 1405-2218: accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov
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