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Retrieval of a broken intramedullary femoral nail
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Injury
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
A method of retrieval of the distal fragment of a broken intramedullary femoral nail is described. The procedure is simple and requires a steel drill, a standard nail extraction hook and a slotted hammer. The method was successfully used in two patients with ununited fractures of the femoral shaft in which the broken intramedullary nail had jammed in the distal fragment.

