Technical problems caused by comminuted cortical free fragments during intramedullary rodding: case reports
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1Department of Orthopaedics, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia 29203.
The Journal of Trauma
|May 1, 1994
Abstract:
Comminuted cortical fracture fragments have not been reported to cause technical problems with intramedullary rod fixation of long bone fractures. Two such cases are reported here. In one case an interposed free cortical fracture fragment caused loss of fracture alignment. In the other case the fragment propagated fracture comminution in an unusual "splitting wedge" manner.