Fracture of an expandable intramedullary nail. Surgical technique for nail removal.
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.
Poyanli
Oguz
O
Orthopaedic and Traumatology Department, Göztepe Research and Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Unay
Koray
K
Akan
Kaya
K
Ozkan
Korhan
K
Guven
Melih
M
D000368:Aged; D001858:Bone Nails; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D005599:Fractures, Ununited / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male