Distant migration of a broken guide pin following femoral neck fixation: a case report
Farzad Amouzadeh Omrani, Sina Afzal, Mojtaba Baroutkoub, Hasan Barati, Sina Azadnajafabad, Ali Keipour · 2024
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Farzad Amouzadeh Omrani and five co-authors report a rare accident in bone surgery: a broken guide pin that traveled to a patient's chest. Their 2024 case report explains that Kirschner wires and guide pins are common orthopedic tools. Most problems are minor, but a loose pin can wander through the body, most often near the shoulder.
The patient, a fifty-year-old man, had a broken femoral neck fixed with three screws in a closed procedure. During the work a guide pin snapped and stayed lodged inside. Later X-rays found the pin in his chest wall near the eleventh rib. Surgeons removed it through a chest opening. The authors stress that migration can happen with pins of any size, that it may cause no symptoms, and sometimes turns up only by chance on later scans. Broken hardware, they argue, should never be left and forgotten.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Farzad Amouzadeh Omrani, Sina Afzal, Mojtaba Baroutkoub, Hasan Barati, Sina Azadnajafabad, Ali Keipour |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |