Khan F A
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Injury. 1992;23(2):129-30. doi: 10.1016/0020-1383(92)90049-x.
A method of retrieval of the distal fragment of a broken intramedullary femoral nail is described. The procedure is simple and requires a steel drill, a standard nail extraction hook and a slotted hammer. The method was successfully used in two patients with ununited fractures of the femoral shaft in which the broken intramedullary nail had jammed in the distal fragment.
