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European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology
Published in: European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology 1/2022

01-01-2022 | Letter to the Editor

In-out-in screws in femoral neck fractures: Can they be avoided?

Authors: Pulak Vatsya, Samarth Mittal, Buddhadev Chowdhury, Vivek Trikha

Published in: European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology | Issue 1/2022

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The article by Yuan et al. [1] in your journal brings up a very important, but sparsely talked about issue encountered while doing screw fixation of femoral neck fractures. We ourselves have faced the problem of in-out-in screws in our practice over the years [2]. This letter intends to present a few insights into how we have analyzed this problem. …
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Yuan BJ, Shamaa MT, Aibinder WR, Parry JA, Cross WW, Barlow JD et al (2020) High incidence of “in–out–in” posterosuperior screws after cannulated screw fixation of femoral neck fractures. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol 30(8):1417–1420CrossRef
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Trikha V, Kumar A, Mittal S, Passey J, Chouhan D, Dubey S (2020) Risk of bony violation with standard triple screw configurations for fixation of femoral neck fractures: a preliminary computed tomography based analysis. J Clin Orthop Trauma 1(11):S546–S552CrossRef
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Metadata
Title
In-out-in screws in femoral neck fractures: Can they be avoided?
Authors
Pulak Vatsya
Samarth Mittal
Buddhadev Chowdhury
Vivek Trikha
Publication date
01-01-2022
Publisher
Springer Paris
Published in
European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology / Issue 1/2022
Print ISSN: 1633-8065
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1068
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00590-021-02910-8

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