# K031050: PCW Percutaneous Compression Wire

- Pathway: 510(k) (Traditional)
- Applicant: Millennium Medical Technologies, Inc.
- Decided: Jul 14, 2003 after 103 days
- Product code: HWC (Screw, Fixation, Bone)
- Device class: 2
- Regulation: 21 CFR 888.3040
- Recalls of this device: none
- Data: FDA decisions to Oct 25, 2026; recalls to Oct 12, 2026

## Lineage
Longest line of descent: 1 generation back to K013888 (2002). 1 ancestor in all.
314 later devices descend from it; 2 cite it directly.
0 of 316 devices in its family (counting itself) have a Class I recall.

## Predicates on the family tree (from the FDA summary)
- K013888: Fixation (Steinmann) Pins, Miltex, Inc. (2002)

## Cited in the summary but kept off the family tree
- K961522: Kirschner Wire (K-Wire) and Steinmann Pin, Synvasive Technology, Inc. (1996). Not matched in our reading of the summary (scans can blur digits), so it is kept off the family tree

## Most influential descendants
- K062863: Osteomed Extended 2.0/2.4CANNULATED Screw System (2006), 310 descendants of its own
- K103705: Low Profile Screws (2011), 219 descendants of its own
- K111253: Arthrex Distal Extremity Plate System (2011), 135 descendants of its own
- K112437: Arthrex Fracture System (2011), 91 descendants of its own
- K123241: Arthrex Fracture Plates (2013), 71 descendants of its own

## Indications for use
Percutaneous Compression Wire system for the formation of osseous fragments or fractures of small bones, including: Scaphoid fractures Lunate fractures Capitate Carpal fractures & non-unions Capitellum fractures Humeral head fractures Trapezial fractures Metacarpal and metatarsal fractures Phalangeal fractures Distal radial fractures Ulnar styloid fractures Osteo-chrondral fractures Small joint fusions Glenoid fractures Intercarpal fusions Interphalangeal fractures Metatarsal osteotomies Tarsal fusions Malleolar fractures Hammer toe formation

Source page: https://510kreport.com/device/K031050
Methodology: https://510kreport.com/methodology