A technique to remove a broken guide wire transfixing the hip joint


Published online: Oct 27 2008

Hemant Sharma, Manish Chauhan, Lalit Maini

From Aruna Asaf Ali Govt. Hospital, Rajpur Road, New Delhi, India

Abstract

A broken guide wire while operating on hip is one of every surgeon's most dreaded nightmares. We report here a method which was used successfully to retrieve a broken guide wire from a patient who was being operated for core decompression and fibular grafting for avascular necrosis of the femoral head.

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