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Incredible position of broken sliding dynamic hip screw implant in the medial of thigh
We report a case with implant failure after nailing of an unstable pertrochanteric fracture with dynamic hip screw. The patient presented with a medial sided thigh pain at 5 years after the surgery. Plain radiographs showed nonunion of the fracture with distant migration of assembled hip screw and s...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6136313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28454781 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aott.2017.03.020 |
| Sumario: | We report a case with implant failure after nailing of an unstable pertrochanteric fracture with dynamic hip screw. The patient presented with a medial sided thigh pain at 5 years after the surgery. Plain radiographs showed nonunion of the fracture with distant migration of assembled hip screw and side plate to the subcutaneous area of the inner thigh. |
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