Traumatic femoral diaphyseal fracture and a bent intramedullary nail in a case with a completely healed femoral diaphyseal fracture

T. Caglar Kockesen, Yavuz Kabukcuoglu, Mehmet Tezer, Mustafa Tekkesin, Unal Kuzgun

Abstract


Bending of a Kuntscher nail which had been used in the treatment of a prior femoral diaphyseal fracture was encountered in a 37-year-old male patient who was admitted to hospital for a deformity in his left thigh caused in a car accident. The nail was extracted and osteosynthesis was performed via an intramedullary locked nail. Union was obtained in the fourth postoperative month without any complications.

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Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica. ISSN: 1017-995x