Medical News Article on Orthopedics

Researchers from Department of Orthopedics Report on Findings in Orthopedics

2012 MAY 4 -- Data detailed in "Comparison of mechanical rigidity between plate augmentation leaving the nail in situ and interlocking nail using cadaveric fracture model of the femur" have been presented. "Thirteen matched pairs of cadaveric femurs were placed into two groups. In each group, a transverse fracture was created at a point 70% distal between the lesser trochanter and the adductor tubercle," scientists writing in the journal International Orthopaedics report.

"One femur out of each matched pair was then stabilised with an interlocking intramedullary nail (nail only group) and the other femur was stabilised with plate augmentation after...

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