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A Case of Lower Extremity Weakness with Foot Drop Following Intramedullary Nailing of a Pathologic Femoral Fracture
A 62-year-old woman presented with a pathologic femoral fracture. She underwent bilateral femoral intramedullary nailing (IMN) fixation, and her postoperative course was complicated by worsening lower extremity weakness and foot drop. Lumbar imaging identified vertebral compression fractures with fo...
Autor principal: | Gusho, Charles A |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cureus
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6944147/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31949995 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6561 |
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