Intramedullary stabilization of paediatric diaphyseal femur fracture with elastic
intramedullary nails. Acta Orthop Traumatol Turc 2002;36(3):220-7.
In surgical treatment,
intramedullary nail fixation has been recommended [2], and plates were previously chosen as the fixation device owing to the technical impracticability of nailing due to bowing of the femur or cortex thickening [7].
Various internal fixation devices have been used to treat femoral intertrochanteric fractures, including sliding hip screws (SHS), percutaneous compression plate (PCCP), gamma nail (GN), proximal femora nail (PFN), proximal femoral nail antirotation (PFNA), Proximal Femoral Nail Antirotation-I I (PFNA-II), and the InterTan
intramedullary nail. Compared to other implants, the advantages of InterTan nail include the ability to maintain compression, eliminate Z-effect intertrochanteric rotational stability and medial migration, control rotation during reduction, and prevent periprosthetic fractures.
Flexible
intramedullary nail use in limb lenghtening.
Comminuted femoral shaft fractures: treatment by roller traction, circlage, wires and an
intramedullary nail or an interlocking
intramedullary nail.
The strain results shows that the
intramedullary nail used by us, manufactured locally in India implanted were found to be good load sharing implants when the results of this work are compared with comparative literatures.
Narayanan et al (6) performed a study to analyze complications associated with the use of titanium elastic stable
intramedullary nails over a 5-year period.
For the surgeon, the tricky part of the process is placing the screws accurately so that they line up exactly with the predrilled holes of the
intramedullary nail. Traditionally, surgeons drill freehand, through the bone's cortex and into the predrilled hole of the implant.
This case report suggested that intraoperative positioning during Kuntscher
intramedullary nail insertion can be complicated by traction injury.
We have been doing lots of operation in our institute on fracture shaft of femur with various implants like
intramedullary nail, interlocking nail, non-locking like K-Nail, plates, LCDCP.
Flexible
intramedullary Nail (FIN) is a simple and minimally invasive technique6.