TY - BOOK AU - Osama Elsayed Ahmed Gafer AU - Ahmed Mahmmoud , AU - Mohamed Kadah , TI - Use of flexible intramedullary Nail fixation in treating long bone fractures in children / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Osama Elsayed Ahmed Gafer , KW - Elastic intramedullary KW - Pediatric fractures KW - Treatment N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Orthopedic Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - The standard care for most pediatric diaphyseal fractures has been conservative treatment (casting or traction). Over the past two decades, pediatric orthopedists have increasingly recognized the advantages of fixation and rapid mobilization. However the risk of complications particularly refracture after extemal fixation and a vascular necrosis after solid intramedullary nailing have prevented these methods from becoming adopted as the best surgical line of treatment UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -