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ArticleBMJ case reports2021

Elastic intramedullary nail treatment of adolescent perihardware radius and ulna refracture.

Carah M Griffin, Jeremy S Somerson

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carah M GriffinUniversity of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine, Galveston, Texas, USA.
Jeremy S SomersonDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA jeremysomerson@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7272-5922
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 13-year-old girl presented to the clinic with a midshaft refracture of both forearm bones adjacent to the site of a prior forearm fracture that had been treated with plating. She was treated with hardware removal and placement of elastic intramedullary nails. Flexible intramedullary nailing can be successful for a skeletally mature adolescent in treatment of refracture surrounding plate fixation of a midshaft forearm fracture. This technique allows for additional protection of the entire length of the affected bones, while avoiding the extensive dissection needed for extended plating.

Indexed as

Bone NailsAdolescentBone PlatesFemaleFracture Fixation, IntramedullaryFracture HealingHumansRadiographyRadiusRadius FracturesRecurrenceReoperationSecondary PreventionTreatment OutcomeUlnaUlna Fracturesorthopaedicspaediatric surgery

Identifiers

PMID33431528
PMCPMC7802658
OpenAlexW3121042873

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