Synthes 201.020 2.0MM CORTEX SCREW 20MM

Cortex Screw, 2 dia. x 20 mm Length, Stainless Steel, Standard, 1.4 mm Core Diameter, 3.5 mm Head Diameter, 0.6 mm Thread Pitch, Single-Use, With Cruciform Recess Precision-engineered 2.0mm cortex screw is ideal for secure and reliable fixation in orthopedic procedures. It is new and comes individually packaged to ensure sterile use. A small, non-sterile, threaded rod with a slotted head typically used for internal orthopedic fracture fixation by being screwed into bone to hold plates or nails to bone or to provide direct interfragmentary stabilization of bone, or it may fasten soft tissue to bone. It is made of a material that cannot be chemically degraded or absorbed via natural body processes (includes implant grade metal such as surgical steel, titanium alloy, or carbon fiber). Screws available are: cortical, cancellous, malleolar, scaphoid, partially-threaded and fully-threaded, self-tapping, and cannulated. A "lag screw" can be any of these used to obtain compression. This device