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How to remove a bent intramedullary nail inexpensively: a technical trick Cover

How to remove a bent intramedullary nail inexpensively: a technical trick

Asian Biomedicine
Volume 10 (2016): Issue 3 (June 2016)
By: Joshua Odendaal,  Elizabeth Peacock,  Jack Cruz,  Saqib Noor and  James G. Gollogly  
Open Access
|Jan 2017

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Figure 1

A: Lateral/oblique view of the fracture and bent intramedullary nail in right femur of a 43-year-old Cambodian man. B: Anterior–posterior view of the fracture and bent intramedullary nail in his right femur.
A: Lateral/oblique view of the fracture and bent intramedullary nail in right femur of a 43-year-old Cambodian man. B: Anterior–posterior view of the fracture and bent intramedullary nail in his right femur.

Figure 2

A 30 mm diameter diamond tipped cutting disk mounted in a Stryker drill.
A 30 mm diameter diamond tipped cutting disk mounted in a Stryker drill.

Figure 3

A 100 mm diameter diamond tipped cutting disk mounted on an industrial angle grinder
A 100 mm diameter diamond tipped cutting disk mounted on an industrial angle grinder

Figure 4

The bent intramedullary nail cut and removed intact, showing a remaining bridge of metal.
The bent intramedullary nail cut and removed intact, showing a remaining bridge of metal.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5372/1905-7415.1003.491 | Journal eISSN: 1875-855X | Journal ISSN: 1905-7415
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Language: English
Page range: 277 - 280
Published on: Jan 31, 2017
Published by: Chulalongkorn University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 6 issues per year
Keywords:
Bent,
developing,
femoral nail,
fracture,
resource-poor setting
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Assistive professions, nursing,
Basic medical science,
Basic medical science, other,
Clinical medicine,
Clinical medicine, other

© 2017 Joshua Odendaal, Elizabeth Peacock, Jack Cruz, Saqib Noor, James G. Gollogly, published by Chulalongkorn University
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