
Femur Fracture
Femur fracture. Female patient, 46 years old, victim of a car accident, suffered a closed fracture of the left femur (Figures 1 and 2).
These radiographs deserve some observations, shown in figures 4,5 and 6.
The fracture was fixed with a locked cephalofemoral nail (figures 7 and 8).
It evolved with pseudoarthrosis, deformity and shortening (Figure 9, 10 and 11)
Authors of the case
Author: Prof. Dr. Pedro Péricles Ribeiro Baptista
Orthopedic Oncosurgery at the Dr. Arnaldo Vieira de Carvalho Cancer Institute
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