Case Controversy: Femoral Shaft Fracture Below Cemented Hip Arthroplasty: Nail Versus Plate Osteosynthesis
Mission Viejo, California
Submitted By: Douglas Wright, MD
Case Profile:Fifty-nine-year-old white female with a history of alcoholism who sustained a distal left femur fracture in a fall at home. Patient is status post ipsilateral cemented hemi-hip arthroplasty for a previous femoral neck fracture.
