Fracture of a transfixed intramedullary nail in a patient with pseudoarthrosis of the femoral diaphysis
Somer, T.; Milicić, A.; Lazetić, A.; Brankov, M.
Medicinski Pregled 47(1-2): 59-61
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8105 PMID: 7739436 Document Number: 427404
This is a case report on a patient with a multiple femur's fracture where a transfixed intramedullar nailing of Grosse-Kempf type has been done. "The nail dynamization" was not carried out before the beginning of vertical loading. Seven months after the full vertical loading had begun, at a sudden torsian movement of the extremity, the nail had broken. Analyzing the cause of the fixative material fracture, a conclusion has been made that, apart from the presence of adequate trauma, the nail fracture happened also due to the development of pseudoarthrosis of femur and the unfulfilled "nail dynamization".