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Distal locking in short hip nails: Cause or prevention of peri-implant fractures?
Injury
April 2016
Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Charles University 3rd Faculty of Medicine and Kralovske Vinohrady Teaching Hospital, Šrobárova 50, 10034 Prague, Czech Republic.
Objectives: The most common cause of femoral fractures after osteosynthesis of trochanteric fractures with short nails is weakening of the femoral cortex via distal locking and stress concentrations at the tip of the nail. The aim of the study was to verify whether the incidence of peri-implant fractures is dependent upon the distal locking technique.
Methods: We prospectively analysed a group of 849 pertrochanteric fractures (AO/ASIF 31-A1+2) managed with short nails from 2009 to 2013.