Case report: Restoration of an open 12 cm femoral defect treated with the Masquelet technique in a 20-year-old polytrauma

Infected post-traumatic femoral defects are challenging to treat, and limited options exist. The case of a 20-year-old polytrauma male who sustained a segmental femur fracture involving the femoral neck, distal femur and an intermediate diaphyseal bone defect of 12 cm is presented. The patient decli...

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Autores principales: Chloros, George D., Howard, Anthony, Kanakaris, Nikolaos K., Giannoudis, Peter V.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8639465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34901374
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcr.2021.100563
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author Chloros, George D.
Howard, Anthony
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Giannoudis, Peter V.
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description Infected post-traumatic femoral defects are challenging to treat, and limited options exist. The case of a 20-year-old polytrauma male who sustained a segmental femur fracture involving the femoral neck, distal femur and an intermediate diaphyseal bone defect of 12 cm is presented. The patient declined a long-term frame in his femur. The 2-stage Masquelet procedure resulted in successful outcome with limb preservation.
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spelling pubmed-86394652021-12-09 Case report: Restoration of an open 12 cm femoral defect treated with the Masquelet technique in a 20-year-old polytrauma Chloros, George D. Howard, Anthony Kanakaris, Nikolaos K. Giannoudis, Peter V. Trauma Case Rep Case Report Infected post-traumatic femoral defects are challenging to treat, and limited options exist. The case of a 20-year-old polytrauma male who sustained a segmental femur fracture involving the femoral neck, distal femur and an intermediate diaphyseal bone defect of 12 cm is presented. The patient declined a long-term frame in his femur. The 2-stage Masquelet procedure resulted in successful outcome with limb preservation. Elsevier 2021-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8639465/ /pubmed/34901374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcr.2021.100563 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Chloros, George D.
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Case report: Restoration of an open 12 cm femoral defect treated with the Masquelet technique in a 20-year-old polytrauma
title Case report: Restoration of an open 12 cm femoral defect treated with the Masquelet technique in a 20-year-old polytrauma
title_full Case report: Restoration of an open 12 cm femoral defect treated with the Masquelet technique in a 20-year-old polytrauma
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title_short Case report: Restoration of an open 12 cm femoral defect treated with the Masquelet technique in a 20-year-old polytrauma
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