An anteroposterior (A) and lateral (B) radiograph of an unstable fracture of the tibial shaft are shown above. A fibular shaft fracture is also present. The tibial fracture was treated successfully with a locked reamed intramedullary nail (C and D). Yellow arrows indicate callus at the site of fracture healing.
Reproduced with permission from: Petrisor BA, Bhandari M, Schemitsch E. Tibia and fibula fractures. In: Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults, 7th ed, Bucholz RW, Heckman JD, Court-Brown CM, Tornetta P (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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