Abstract

• We managed thirty-five patients who had a fracture of the femoral shaft with interlocking fixation and twenty-five of thirty-five patients healed without conversion to dynamic intramedullary fixation and followed more than a year. The results of treatment of fractures of the femoral shaft with static interlocking nailing were reviewed. The average duration of follow-up was sixteen months(range, twelve to twenty-four months). Radiographic consolidation was seen in all fractures at a median of sixteen weeks(range, eight to twenty weeks).
  There were no non-unions. We concluded that routine conversion of static interlocking to dynamic interlocking is not necessary in the intramedullary nailing of the femur shaft fractures.
• Key words: Femur shaft, Fracture, Static interlocking intramedullary nailing

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• Analysis of Risk Factors for Nonunion after Intramedullary Nailing of Femoral Shaft Fracture in Adult
  Yong-Woon Shin, Yerl-Bo Sung, Jeong Yoon Choi, Minkyu Kim
  Journal of the Korean Fracture Society.2011; 24(4): 313.     CrossRef