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Case 6: Open Femoral Fracture Treated with Internal Fixation Converted to Circular External Fixation due to Infection

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Abstract

Seven year old female sustained a Salter-Harris II comminuted distal type IIIA open femoral fracture with associated bone loss. She was treated initially with locking plate internal fixation and converted to a circular external fixator because of an acute infection and loss of fixation.

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  1. Center for Excellence in Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, 2222 Welborn Street, Dallas, TX, 75219, USA

    Lane Wimberly, Alexander Cherkashin & Mikhail Samchukov

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  1. Lane Wimberly
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Correspondence to Lane Wimberly .

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  1. Limb Lengthening and Complex Reconstruction Service, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA

    S. Robert Rozbruch

  2. Shriners Hospital and Montreal Children Hospital, Division of Paediatric Orthopaedics, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

    Reggie C. Hamdy

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Wimberly, L., Cherkashin, A., Samchukov, M. (2015). Case 6: Open Femoral Fracture Treated with Internal Fixation Converted to Circular External Fixation due to Infection. In: Rozbruch, S., Hamdy, R. (eds) Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Surgery Case Atlas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18023-6_76

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