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Complications associated with the use of the gamma nail.

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Kingston Hospital, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, UK.

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At Kingston Hospital, the Gamma nail has only been used for the fixation of unstable intertrochanteric and subtrochanteric fractures of the femur. There have been 28 cases; 21 required distal locking. Of these, there were intraoperative difficulties in nine.

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