---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 888.3020"
title: "21"
number: "888.3020"
heading: "Intramedullary fixation rod."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/888.3020"
---

# §888.3020. Intramedullary fixation rod.

- (a) **Identification.** An intramedullary fixation rod is a device intended to be implanted that consists of a rod made of alloys such as cobalt-chromium-molybdenum and stainless steel. It is inserted into the medullary (bone marrow) canal of long bones for the fixation of fractures.
- (b) **Classification.** Class II.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 351, 360, 360c, 360e, 360j, 360 l , 371.

### Source

Source: 52 FR 33702, Sept. 4, 1987, unless otherwise noted.