title: Fracture of an expandable intramedullary nail. Surgical technique for nail removal.
abstract: Intramedullary nailing with expandable nails is one of the techniques available for the treatment of fractures of long bones. Concerns regarding bony union have been reported in medical literature, but no case of femoral nail breakage secondary to delayed union has been reported to date. We present a case of a broken expandable femoral nail secondary to delayed union, and we describe the technique used for its extraction.
authors.affiliation: Orthopaedic and Traumatology Department, Göztepe Research and Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Oguz
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Poyanli
authors.forename: Koray
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Unay
authors.forename: Kaya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Akan
authors.forename: Korhan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ozkan
authors.forename: Melih
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guven
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001858:Bone Nails; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D005599:Fractures, Ununited / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male