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Femoral metastatic fractures treated with intramedullary nailing
C E Gibbons1, S J Pope, J P Murphy
1Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, London, UK.
International Orthopaedics
|July 14, 2000
Abstract:
Between 1993 and 1998, 49 consecutive patients with impending or complete pathological fractures of the femur due to metastatic bone disease were treated with intramedullary nailing. Twenty-four were treated with a long Gamma nail and 32 with an AO nail with a cephalomedullary spiral blade. Both implants gave a good functional result with relief of pain and improved mobility with no difference in morbidity between either group (P>0.05).