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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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| 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 |