Nonunion poses significant difficulties for both patients and orthopedic surgeons, often requiring intricate reconstructive surgeries to achieve bone healing and eliminate infections. Surgeons must navigate numerous contributing factors to nonunion, and they also face challenging hardware issues during revision procedures. These issues can include infections, loose or failing hardware, misaligned components, or inappropriate hardware configurations. This case series includes five cases of nonunion femur fractures and the goal is to carefully analyze the best treatment option for treating nonunion. All the cases underwent the removal of whole or part of the hardware followed by bone grafting and attainment of the stable construct with load-sharing devices and augmentation with neutralizing plates. All the cases had a radiological bone union at an average of four to seven months with improvement of Harris Hip Score.

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