Re[2]: [ORT-L] Periprosthetic fracture of the femur


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Re[2]: [ORT-L] Periprosthetic fracture of the femur

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Aug 19, 2007, 6:02 AM

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Dear Fuat

Saturday, August 18, 2007 2:19:55 PM fuat wrote:

> I think this fracture is Vancouver type B2(prosthesis unstable).

Type B means fractures near the tip of the stem. This case presents
also also split and displacement from the trochanter along the stem.

> I prefer you to remove the femoral stem with a cementless long stem
> revision prosthesis, trochanteric grip, cerclage, distal femoral
> LISS plate(from the femoral condyle to the tip of the stem).

? So the plate is to be fixed only over the intact part of the femur?

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Best regards,
Alexander N. Chelnokov
Ural Scientific Research Institute
of Traumatology and Orthopaedics
7, Bankovsky str. Ekaterinburg 620014 Russia

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