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Complications of Küntscher intramedullary nailing in a child: a case report
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Benha Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt.
Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics. Part B
|April 28, 1999
Abstract:
A fracture of the femur in a 7-year-old boy who was treated with retrograde Küntscher nailing is described. The follow-up period was 8 1/2 years. Deep infection, physeal injury of the femoral head, and trochanteric epiphysiodesis were serious consequences of the surgery.