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Indications for Use of the Long Gamma Nail
- Source :
- Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 350:62
- Publication Year :
- 1998
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1998.
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Abstract
- A retrospective analysis of 42 patients treated by intramedullary nailing with the Gamma nail with a mean followup of 22.4 months is reported. The indications for the use of this nail were subtrochanteric fractures in 31 cases, diaphyseal femoral fractures in 10 cases, and segmental fracture in one case. Seven cases of the diaphyseal fractures were renailings for a previously placed nail. There was one pathologic fracture in the subtrochanteric group and three in the diaphyseal group. The indications of this new technique and its complications are analyzed.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Segmental fracture
Pathologic fracture
Bone Nails
law.invention
Intramedullary rod
law
Fracture fixation
medicine
Humans
Subtrochanteric Fractures
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
skin and connective tissue diseases
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Aged, 80 and over
integumentary system
Gamma nail
Hip Fractures
business.industry
Retrospective cohort study
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary
Surgery
Fractures, Spontaneous
medicine.anatomical_structure
Nail (anatomy)
business
Femoral Fractures
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0009921X
- Volume :
- 350
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dbd3c0f139d88bb9b575100ad397d687