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Joseph A Gil1, Philip McClure, Christopher T Born
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI. joseph_gil@brown.edu.
Abstract:
Nail breakage is a known complication of intramedullary nail (IMN) fixation of tibial fractures. Several case reports have described unique methods used to facilitate removal of broken IMNs. In this article, we describe an efficient technique for extracting broken tibial IMNs-a technique that can be used before attempting more invasive extraction methods.
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