title: Massive traumatic femoral bone loss treated by conservative means: a case report.
abstract: A sixteen-year-old boy lost twenty-two centimetres of bone from his left femoral shaft in a motorcycle accident. This bone was washed in saline and replaced into its normal position, the patient being treated conservatively. Two previous similar cases had been treated by intramedullary fixation.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001861:Bone Regeneration; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D005269:Femur / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012092:Replantation