METHOD OF REMOVING THE BROKEN DISTAL END OF THE FEMORAL CANNULATED INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC A61B17/56 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, particularly to traumatology and orthopedics. To remove the broken distal end of the femoral intramedullary nail, skin incisions are made according to the previous postoperative scars, and the broken proximal end of the intramedullary nail is unblocked and removed. Threaded conical steel Schanz screw with diameter 5–6 mm, length 200 mm is screwed into the channel of the distal end of the cannulated intramedullary nail till complete seizure of the Schantz screw in the distal end of the intramedullary nail. A caudal distal end of the broken intramedullary nail is unblocked and removed by means of a seized Schantz screw through a proximal surgical wound.

EFFECT: invention can be used in treating fractures and their consequences in the form of delayed fusion, false joints and bone defects of femur, localized in proximal femoral diaphysis and accompanied by breakage of cannulated femoral intramedullary nail in its proximal part.

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