Incredible position of broken sliding dynamic hip screw implant in the medial of thigh

Abstract

We report a case with implant failure after nailing of an unstable pertrochanteric fracture with dynamichip screw. The patient presented with a medial sided thigh pain at 5 years after the surgery. Plain radiographs showed nonunion of the fracture with distant migration of assembled hip screw and side plateto the subcutaneous area of the inner thigh.© 2017 Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This isan open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)