Topic: Intramedullary Nailing
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What Are the Causes of Knee Pain from an Intramedullary Nail?
Efficient intramedullar nailing involves cutting the patellar (kneecap) tendon and its protective sheath down the middle. This dissection of the kneecap is deemed by surgeons to be the primary cause of chronic anterior knee pain after the p... Read More »
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Intramedullary nail fracture compression techniques: when and how...
Fracture compression can be achieved in many ways intraoperatively using either screws in compression plates, compression devices, or using intramedullary nails. The use of locked intramedullary nails combines the advantages of indirect fra... Read More »
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19390370
What is nail (redirected from intramedullary nail) ?
1. to attach with or as if with nails 2. Informal to arrest or seize 3. Informal to hit or bring down, as with a shot I nailed the sniper 4. Informal to expose or detect (a lie or liar) 5. to fix or focus (one's eyes, attention, etc.) on an... Read More »
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Fractures of long bones are commonly treated with intramedullary (IM) nails and they have been shown to have a very high success rate. Recently we have concerns with the use of the newer IM nailing systems, that uses longer cross screws, wh...
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To answer this question, I shall have to give you a little background. I was working as a surgeon at a time when intramedullary nailing and plating had reached the limits of their capabilities. Simple (unlocked) closed nailing was an excell...
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Source: http://www.maitrise-orthop.com/corpusmaitri/interview/mo75_grosse...
Once femoral and tibial nailing had been found to be reliable, we started extending the technique to other bone shafts. For the humerus, Mr. Seidel in Hamburg developed a nailing technique, while ulnar nailing was developed by Prof. Lefevre...
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