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Abstract

A transport device for receiving and securely holding an ossicular prosthesis for implantation in a middle ear during transport to an operating surgeon for replacing or bridging at least parts of a component of a human ossicular chain, the transport device has a flat base plate of thin metal sheet having a thickness of substantially half a millimeter, at least one suspending device connected to the base plate and twistable using fine segments and integrated in the base plate for receiving and holding the ossicular prosthesis, and the connecting element which connects a first fastening element of the ossicular prosthesis used for mechanical connection to a tympanic membrane or a component of the ossicular chain with a second fastening component on another end used for mechanical connection to a further component or parts of a component of the ossicular chain or directly to an inner ear so that the first and second fastening elements are connected by the connecting element in a sound-conducting manner, wherein the suspending device is configured so that it aligns with the surface of the base plate during manufacture of the transport device and for suspension of the ossicular prosthesis is rotatable relative to an ossicular prosthesis lying-flat production state by substantially 90° relative to the base plate by plastic deformation of the segments and then extends above the surface of the base plate.

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