Massive traumatic femoral bone loss treated by conservative means: a case report.
Journal: The Australian And New Zealand Journal Of Surgery
Published:
Abstract
A sixteen-year-old boy lost twenty-two centimetres of bone from his left femoral shaft in a motorcycle accident. This bone was washed in saline and replaced into its normal position, the patient being treated conservatively. Two previous similar cases had been treated by intramedullary fixation.
Authors
R Cook, I Macfarlane