The importance of reaming the posterior femoral cortex before inserting lengthening nails and calculation of the amount of reaming

BACKGROUND: Lengthening nails have been used to correct limb length discrepancy caused by different etiologies, as well as for post-traumatic reasons. Two important lengthening nail-related complications are damage to the distraction mechanism and femoral fractures around the nail tip. As a result o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Kucukkaya, Metin, Karakoyun, Özgür, Erol, Mehmet Fatih
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
Materias:
Technical Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26772540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-016-0345-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26772540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-016-0345-6

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