Spontaneous Hemarthrosis of the Knee - Late Complication of Flexible Femur Nailing: A Case Report

We present a case report of acute spontaneous knee hemarthosis due to erosion of the nail through the knee joint capsule in a boy, seven months following retrograde flexible nailing for fractured femur. Careful positioning of the location of the insertion site of flexible nails and proper nail tip m...

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Autores principales: Kushare, Indranil V, Oetgen, Matthew E, Walters, Suzanne J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5282937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28180118
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/traumamon.23063
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description We present a case report of acute spontaneous knee hemarthosis due to erosion of the nail through the knee joint capsule in a boy, seven months following retrograde flexible nailing for fractured femur. Careful positioning of the location of the insertion site of flexible nails and proper nail tip management are important to avoid this rare late complication.
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spelling pubmed-52829372017-02-08 Spontaneous Hemarthrosis of the Knee - Late Complication of Flexible Femur Nailing: A Case Report Kushare, Indranil V Oetgen, Matthew E Walters, Suzanne J Trauma Mon Case Report We present a case report of acute spontaneous knee hemarthosis due to erosion of the nail through the knee joint capsule in a boy, seven months following retrograde flexible nailing for fractured femur. Careful positioning of the location of the insertion site of flexible nails and proper nail tip management are important to avoid this rare late complication. Kowsar 2016-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5282937/ /pubmed/28180118 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/traumamon.23063 Text en Copyright © 2016, Trauma Monthly http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Spontaneous Hemarthrosis of the Knee - Late Complication of Flexible Femur Nailing: A Case Report
title Spontaneous Hemarthrosis of the Knee - Late Complication of Flexible Femur Nailing: A Case Report
title_full Spontaneous Hemarthrosis of the Knee - Late Complication of Flexible Femur Nailing: A Case Report
title_fullStr Spontaneous Hemarthrosis of the Knee - Late Complication of Flexible Femur Nailing: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Hemarthrosis of the Knee - Late Complication of Flexible Femur Nailing: A Case Report
title_short Spontaneous Hemarthrosis of the Knee - Late Complication of Flexible Femur Nailing: A Case Report
title_sort spontaneous hemarthrosis of the knee - late complication of flexible femur nailing: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5282937/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/traumamon.23063
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