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Am J Orthop (Belle Mead NJ)
; 33(10): 489-93, 2004 Oct.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15540848
RESUMO
Ideally, acquired femoral malrotation as a complication of intramedullary nailing of a femoral shaft fracture should be identified and corrected early in the course of treatment. In this report, we present a previously undescribed precise surgical technique for acutely correcting an acquired femoral malrotation deformity 20 days after fixation of a femoral shaft fracture with a statically locked intramedullary nail. An llizarov external fixator was used intraoperatively to correct a 27 degree femoral malrotation deformity in a 19-year-old man.