Preoperative estimation of humerus intramedullary nail length using clinical landmarks

CONCLUSION: To improve the stability of fixation with intramedullary nails it is imperative to select the appropriate nail length. There have been studies that devised reliable methods of determining nail lengths in the tibia and femur using preoperative clinical measurements. A similar clinical method of determining humeral nail length is lacking in the literature. Our study was able to correlate radiological lengths of the humerus medullary canal with clinical measurements performed using anatomical landmarks to arrive at a formula. This allows for a reliable and easy nail length determination preoperatively.PMID:37344289 | DOI:10.1016/j.cjtee.2023.06.001
Source: Chinese Journal of Traumatology - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Source Type: research