Flexible Intramedullary Nailing in Children The Nancy University Manual /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lascombes, Pierre. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Orthopedic surgery.; Trauma.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.; Traumatic Surgery.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03031-4

Over the past three decades, the flexible intramedullary nailing (FIN) technique that originated in the University of Nancy in France has evolved to the point where it is becoming the gold standard for the treatment of many fractures in children. Most orthopedic surgeons and traumatologists now use...

Table of Contents:

• General considerations
• Experimental studies
• Biomechanics of FIN
• Stainless steel or Titanium ?- Surgical Technique: Basic Principles
• FIN without image intensification
• Hardware removal
• Pediatric anesthesia and postoperative pain management
• FIN and imaging
• Rehabilitation after FIN
• Professional caregivers perspective
• Technique
• Humeral shaft fracture
• Supracondylar humeral fracture
• Radial neck fracture
• Both-bone forearm fracture
• Metacarpal and Phalangeal fractures
• Femoral fracture
• Tibial fracture
• Ipsilateral long bone fractures and Polytrauma
• Other indications
• FIN in Ilizarov bone lengthening
• Use of FIN for correction of deformities in children with familial hypophosphatemic rickets
• FIN and osteotomies
• Conclusion.