Article
Intraoperative Challenge of Removing a Tibia Intramedullary Nail With the Herzog's Bend Facing Anteriorly- a Case Report
2022-03-21
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> Intramedullary nailing of tibial shaft fractures is a very standard procedure. Removal of implant is done many times for reasons such as infection, breakage, nonunion and in situations where patient demands it. Complications during removal of tibia nail have been described. We report a case wherein an arthrotomy of the knee was necessary because of wrongly inserted nail with the Herzog bend(a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- dfb4070e-683c-5eaf-b1a4-751a89a7cfd7
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1464324/v1
