Dynamic hip screw and gamma nail have been widely used to treat the patients with proximal femoral fractures, but clinical failures of those implants are still to be found. This study developed three-dimensional finite element models to investigate the biomechanical performances of the implants. Two kinds of commercially available implants (dynamic hip screw and gamma nail) and one newly design...

Objective: To determine the clinical, functional and radiological outcome of unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures treated with proximal nailMethods: The study is a prospective on 20 patients to analyse nail conducted in Department Orthopedics at Stanley medical college, Chennai from June 2018 August 2020. Functional was assessed using Harris hip score.Results: fracture were surgically res...

BACKGROUND This study aims at assessing the clinical results, radiographic findings, and associated complications after osteosynthesis of trochanteric hip fractures with proximal femoral nail (PFN). METHODS A total of 152 patients with hip fractures who underwent osteosynthesis with PFN were included. The hip fracture types in the patients included in the study were classified according to th...

Antibiotic cement-coated intramedullary nails maintain a locally high antibiotic concentration while contributing to bone stability. We present a case of femoral subtrochanteric fracture in a patient with an infected nonunion who was successfully treated for an infection and nonunion using an antibiotic cement-coated tibial intramedullary nail. A 79-year-old woman with a right femoral subtrocha...

The newer second generation reconstruction nails, such as the proximal femoral nail (Synthes-Stratec, Oberdorf, Switzerland), Russell-Taylor Delta nail (Smith & Nephew Inc, Memphis, Tenn) and gamma nail (Stryker Corp, Kalamazoo, Mich), produce satisfactory results clinically and biomechanically in the treatment of unstable proximal femoral fractures.1-4 The key to smooth progression of the surg...

Background. Selection of entry point for nail insertion is controversial and lack firm anatomical basis. The study is done to analyze the proximal anthropometry of femur and measure the Trochanter-Shaft Angle to find its relation and significance in selection of entry point for antegrade uniplanar femoral nail. Materials and Methods. Study involves the measurement of trochanter-shaft angle and ...

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate the management intertrochanteric fracture femur using Proximal Femoral Nail Antirotation (PFNA).
 Materials and methods: Sixty patients unstable pertrochanteric fractures were treated by closed reduction internal fixation proximal femoral nail antirotation from July 2015 June 2017. Four lost follow-ups. remaining 56 followed for a mean perio...