Posterolateral Distal Humerus Locking Plate

The capitellum is a difficult target: almost spherical, covered in cartilage, and reached through bone that gets thinner with age and fracture. Screws that converge on it from the posterior aspect find its best remaining stock, but only if they keep their planned direction. In soft condylar bone a conventional screw drifts as it tightens.

The locking posterolateral plate removes that drift. Its distal screws engage the plate at fixed angles, so the corridor chosen at planning is the corridor the screw actually travels — forward into the capitellum, clear of the joint surface. As the posterolateral element of a dual construct it gives the lateral side of the elbow fixed-angle stability to match the medial plate. Screw planning and construct design stay with the operating surgeon.

The plate is positioned on the posterior surface of the lateral column with the distal cluster over the back of the condyle. Locking screws are driven forward into the capitellar bone along their fixed trajectories, and the shaft is anchored up the column. Lengths run from seventy-two millimetres to two hundred and twenty-eight across the two code families.

The twelve-number range is stocked complete in the BoneCraft warehouse in both sides, and orders ship in sealed manufacturer trays with lot references entered on the delivery documentation.