DILOPS

The use of the Dilops “diverging screws” plate allows the orthopaedic surgeon to synthesize lateral femoral neck fractures with a sharp-cut mininvasive incision which assures great efficacy and mechanical stability.

This system is based on the load force transfer from the femoral head to the strong diaphyseal cortex of the femur; it allows the reduction at minimum of the lever arm between the axial load and the anatomical axes, which characterize every osteosynthesis device.

The goal of diverging screws is the reproduction, as faithful as possible, of the arch of Adams function by transferring the femoral head load to the diaphyseal medial district of the femur.

The synthesis becomes therefore a kind of arch running from the head's inferior quadrants to the medial diaphyseal cortex thanks to the angular stability screws locked into the plate.