Femoral fracture before removal of an intramedullary nail

✍ Scribed by J. A. Lozano Requena; F. Vidal Roig; F. Lluch Adelantado

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 317 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0341-2695
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00192479

✦ Synopsis

We describe a patient with a fracture of the femoral shaft treated by intramedullary nailing and who had a further fracture before the nail was removed. We are not aware of any previous reports of this complication. R f i s u m ~. Les auteurs rapportent le cas d'une fracture de la diaphyse fdmorale chez un patient dijg~ traitg par enclouage centro-m~dullaire et avant l'ablation du matdriel d'ostiosynthbse. I1 semble que cette complication n'ait jamais ~ti publige dans la littgrature.