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Failure on attempted removal of a Gamma nail in two young patients
Kyu Hyun Yang1, Young Soo Byun, Hui Wan Park
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Taegu Fatima Hospital, Taegu, Korea.
Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma
|May 22, 2003
Abstract:
We experienced failures in attempting to remove a Gamma nail and a long Gamma nail, both of which were used for fixation of a subtrochanteric fracture in two young patients. We suspect that new bone forms in the notch, which is located beneath the screw thread in the lag screw, and causes jamming of the lag screw in young patients after fracture consolidation.