Cable and crimp assembly kits for fixing bone fractures include long-nose
crimp pliers that have a pair of operating handles and connected opposed
long jaws. The long jaws are designed to hold and crush a wire crimp. The
jaws are long and narrow enough to be able to insert and crush a crimp
through a small incision, such as used by a known wire passer tool, at a
deeply located bone without spreading or opening wider the small
incision. The long-nosed pliers can be used with a crimp alone or with a
crimp and an intermediate part that provisionally holds a tension applied
to an associated cable or wire.