A simple technique to retrieve broken guide wire transfixing hip joint
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A technique to remove a broken guide wire transfixing the hip joint.
A broken guide wire while operating on hip is one of every surgeon's most dreaded nightmares. We report here a method which was used successfully to retrieve a broken guide wire from a patient who was being operated for core decompression and fibular grafting for avascular necrosis of the femoral head.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Orthopaedics and Allied Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2319-2585
DOI: 10.4103/2319-2585.155920