Hip screw lateral migration with no cut-out or non-union implication: a case report

Hip screw migration of peritrochanteric fracture fixation devices is a described complication in English literature. Medial migration occupies the majority of these cases whereas lateral migration is rare. We report the case of an 85-year-old woman whose intramedullary osteosynthesis of a trochanter...

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Autores principales: Lasanianos, Nikolaos, Mouzopoulos, Georgios, Georgilas, Ioannis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6419
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author Lasanianos, Nikolaos
Mouzopoulos, Georgios
Georgilas, Ioannis
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Mouzopoulos, Georgios
Georgilas, Ioannis
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description Hip screw migration of peritrochanteric fracture fixation devices is a described complication in English literature. Medial migration occupies the majority of these cases whereas lateral migration is rare. We report the case of an 85-year-old woman whose intramedullary osteosynthesis of a trochanteric fracture was complicated by hip screw lateral migration. Mobilization was not influenced and no cut-out or non-union was detected. The migrated hip screw was easily removed and the discomfort vanished. The need for adequate surgical technique and radiographic examination after re-injuries even if the patient remains ambulatory is emphasised.
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spelling pubmed-28270582010-02-24 Hip screw lateral migration with no cut-out or non-union implication: a case report Lasanianos, Nikolaos Mouzopoulos, Georgios Georgilas, Ioannis Cases J Research article Hip screw migration of peritrochanteric fracture fixation devices is a described complication in English literature. Medial migration occupies the majority of these cases whereas lateral migration is rare. We report the case of an 85-year-old woman whose intramedullary osteosynthesis of a trochanteric fracture was complicated by hip screw lateral migration. Mobilization was not influenced and no cut-out or non-union was detected. The migrated hip screw was easily removed and the discomfort vanished. The need for adequate surgical technique and radiographic examination after re-injuries even if the patient remains ambulatory is emphasised. BioMed Central 2009-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC2827058/ /pubmed/20181153 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6419 Text en Copyright ©2009 Lasanianos et al; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lasanianos, Nikolaos
Mouzopoulos, Georgios
Georgilas, Ioannis
Hip screw lateral migration with no cut-out or non-union implication: a case report
title Hip screw lateral migration with no cut-out or non-union implication: a case report
title_full Hip screw lateral migration with no cut-out or non-union implication: a case report
title_fullStr Hip screw lateral migration with no cut-out or non-union implication: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Hip screw lateral migration with no cut-out or non-union implication: a case report
title_short Hip screw lateral migration with no cut-out or non-union implication: a case report
title_sort hip screw lateral migration with no cut-out or non-union implication: a case report
topic Research article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6419
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