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MASSIVE TRAUMATIC FEMORAL BONE LOSS TREATED BY CONSERVATIVE MEANS: A CASE REPORT
Author(s) -
COOK R. B. G.,
Macfarlane I. J. A.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1980.tb04154.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intramedullary rod , surgery , fixation (population genetics) , femoral bone , conservative treatment , femoral shaft , femur , population , environmental health
A sixteen‐year‐old boy lost twenty‐two centimetres of bone from his left femoral shaft in a motor cycle accicident. This bone was washed in saline and replaced into its normal position, the patient being treated conservatively. Two previous similar cases had been treated by intramedullary fixation.