ArticleGeriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation2021
A Novel Surgical Method for Treating Symptomatic Incomplete Atypical Femoral Fracture using Percutaneous Elastic Intramedullary Nailing.
Article in Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.
- Conservative Treatment With Teriparatide for Symptomatic Incomplete Atypical Femoral Fractures: A Retrospective Observational Study.Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Incomplete Atypical Femoral Fracture With Severe Bowing Treated by Intramedullary Nail and Corrective Osteotomy.Cureus · 2023Article
- The role of the fracture liaison service in the prevention of atypical femoral fractures.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2023Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeTo introduce the principles and procedure of percutaneous elastic intramedullary nailing (PEIN) as a treatment for symptomatic incomplete atypical femoral fracture (SIAFF).
methodsFrom October 2014 to April 2019, 6 cases of SIAFF were treated with PEIN. Two pre-bent 4-mm stainless-steel nails were used to apply compressive force to the fracture site. The antegrade method was used for proximal fractures and the retrograde method for middle and distal femoral fractures. The femoral bowing angle in the coronal and sagittal planes, and the time required for callus formation and union, were evaluated on plain radiographs in both planes. Thigh pain, tenderness, and complications were also assessed.
resultsThe mean operating time was 65.00 ± 22.64 min. No case progressed to complete atypical fracture. In one case, fracture occurred around the point of nail entry after the patient fell from a chair on postoperative day 7. The incomplete fracture lines were united in 5 cases, after excluding one case with a complication. The time taken to confirm endocortical callus formation, fracture line disappearance, and clinical union was 2.11 ± 0.53, 6.45 ± 4.10, and 6.45 ± 3.65 months, respectively.
conclusionsPEIN is a quick, simple but effective treatment for SIAFF that considers the fracture mechanism and is applicable to cases with severe femoral bowing. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level IV, case series.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.