Breakage of a Lag Screw of Cephalomedullary Nail: A Technique of Removal

A broken lag screw of the cephalomedullary nail is a rare condition. Removal of the retained lag screw from the femoral head is also very challenging. This article describes a surgical technique and the modified instrument that was available in the operating room for removing the broken implant by c...

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Autores principales: Tantigate, Direk, Riansuwan, Kongkhet, Mahaisavariya, Banchong, Sukjaitham, Kitichai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Orthopaedic Association 2015
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Technical Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26217475
http://dx.doi.org/10.4055/cios.2015.7.2.261
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author Tantigate, Direk
Riansuwan, Kongkhet
Mahaisavariya, Banchong
Sukjaitham, Kitichai
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description A broken lag screw of the cephalomedullary nail is a rare condition. Removal of the retained lag screw from the femoral head is also very challenging. This article describes a surgical technique and the modified instrument that was available in the operating room for removing the broken implant by closed technique.
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spelling pubmed-45154692015-07-27 Breakage of a Lag Screw of Cephalomedullary Nail: A Technique of Removal Tantigate, Direk Riansuwan, Kongkhet Mahaisavariya, Banchong Sukjaitham, Kitichai Clin Orthop Surg Technical Note A broken lag screw of the cephalomedullary nail is a rare condition. Removal of the retained lag screw from the femoral head is also very challenging. This article describes a surgical technique and the modified instrument that was available in the operating room for removing the broken implant by closed technique. The Korean Orthopaedic Association 2015-06 2015-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4515469/ /pubmed/26217475 http://dx.doi.org/10.4055/cios.2015.7.2.261 Text en Copyright © 2015 by The Korean Orthopaedic Association http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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