RETROGRADE NAILING OF FEMORAL FRACTURE BELOW A HIP-PROSTHESIS - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
VERBURG AD
Citation
Ad. Verburg, RETROGRADE NAILING OF FEMORAL FRACTURE BELOW A HIP-PROSTHESIS - A CASE-REPORT, Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume, 80B(2), 1998, pp. 282-283
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,Orthopedics
Journal title
Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume → ACNP
ISSN journal
0301620X
Volume
80B
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
282 - 283
Database
ISI
SICI code
0301-620X(1998)80B:2<282:RNOFFB>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
In a frail elderly patient a pathological fracture of the femur at the lower end of a loose femoral stem was treated by the retrograde inser tion of an intramedullary nail over the tip of the prosthesis.