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Fig. 3 | World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Fig. 3

From: Intramedullary nailing has sufficient durability for metastatic femoral fractures

Fig. 3

The clinical course of one patient who undergone revision surgery after implant failure. X-ray imaging revealed an impending fracture and an osteoblastic lesion in the left subtrochanteric part of femur (a). IMN was performed, and the postoperative course was uneventful until the implant failure at the 50-month clinical follow-up (b). X-ray imaging showed a broken implant in proximal part (c). The IM rod was removed and the proximal part of the femur was resected and then replaced with EPR (d)

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