Acta Chir Orthop Traumatol Cech. 2015; 82(3):239-242 | DOI: 10.55095/achot2015/036

Salvage Total Hip Arthroplasty after Two Gamma 3 Nail Failures: A Case ReportCase report

Z. L. STEPANOVIC1,2,*, B. M. RISTIC1,2
1 Clinic for Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Clinical Center Kragujevac, Serbia
2 Faculty of Medical Science, University of Kragujevac, Serbia

We report a case of 68-year-old female patient who suffered two Gamma 3 nail breakages following trochanteric fixation failure revision surgery. A patient was primarily treated with sliding hip screw. Revision surgeries of reverse trochanteric non-union were performed with short Gamma 3 nails and bone grafting. The nail failures occurred 11 and 7 months after implantation. This undesired series of events were caused by inappropriate implant selection, thus replacing the nail to a modular total hip arthroplasty was more effective as salvage surgery.

Keywords: salvage total hip arthroplasty, gamma nail, sliding hip screw, fixation failure, reverse trochanteric fracture, non-union

Published: June 1, 2015  Show citation

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STEPANOVIC ZL, RISTIC BM. Salvage Total Hip Arthroplasty after Two Gamma 3 Nail Failures: A Case Report. Acta Chir Orthop Traumatol Cech. 2015;82(3):239-242. doi: 10.55095/achot2015/036. PubMed PMID: 26317297.
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