Bent femoral intramedullary nail: a case report and review of the literature

Intramedullary nailing is considered the gold standard technique for the treatment of femoral shaft fractures. A rare complication of this technique is nail bending after a new trauma. In these cases nail removal might be really challenging. The present paper provides a brief review of surgical tech...

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Autores principales: Gianluca, Canton, Bramir, Hoxhaj, Roberto, Fattori, Luigi, Murena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mattioli 1885 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6503421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30715023
http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v90i1-S.8072
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author Gianluca, Canton
Bramir, Hoxhaj
Roberto, Fattori
Luigi, Murena
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description Intramedullary nailing is considered the gold standard technique for the treatment of femoral shaft fractures. A rare complication of this technique is nail bending after a new trauma. In these cases nail removal might be really challenging. The present paper provides a brief review of surgical techniques purposed in the literature for bent nail removal and describes a clinical case. (www.actabiomedica.it)
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spelling pubmed-65034212019-05-08 Bent femoral intramedullary nail: a case report and review of the literature Gianluca, Canton Bramir, Hoxhaj Roberto, Fattori Luigi, Murena Acta Biomed Case Report Intramedullary nailing is considered the gold standard technique for the treatment of femoral shaft fractures. A rare complication of this technique is nail bending after a new trauma. In these cases nail removal might be really challenging. The present paper provides a brief review of surgical techniques purposed in the literature for bent nail removal and describes a clinical case. (www.actabiomedica.it) Mattioli 1885 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6503421/ /pubmed/30715023 http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v90i1-S.8072 Text en Copyright: © 2019 ACTA BIO MEDICA SOCIETY OF MEDICINE AND NATURAL SCIENCES OF PARMA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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