The Perforated Cruciate Intramedullary Nail: Preliminary Report of Its Use in Geriatric Patients

Preliminary results of new elastic mini-nail in the distal radius fractures. First 83 cases of the nail-o-flex nail

“…The later used his nails on the wounded of the Finnish front during the Second World War [8]. The transverse locking of the nail has been described by Modny and Bambara in 1953 [9]. This lock was improved by Kempf and Grosse [10] in 1978 to the point where it prevailed over the screw plate osteosynthesis which was very popular in the 1960-1980.…”

Segmented interlocking nail: An in vivo evaluation of a novel humeral osteotomy fixation device in a caprine model

“…Intramedullary nailing for treatment of diaphyseal fractures was popularized by Gerhard Kuntscher in the 1940s (1). In 1953 Modny and Bambara introduced the transfixion intramedullary nail, which was cruciate-shaped, with multiple holes the length of the nail to allow for placement of screws at 90° angles to each other (2). In 1972 Klemm and Schellmann introduced a much revised interlocking nail, which was comparable to the first commercially avail-able veterinary locking intramedullary nail a that was designed by Dueland in 1989 and marketed in 1994 (3)(4)(5).…”

Dynamic compression nail: A preliminary report

“…The interlocking nailing which was first described by Modney [1] in 1953, has undergone many design modifications since then and has almost completely replaced the plating in the present day. It offers a load bearing-device with excellent stability against the axial and rotational deformation of the fracture.…”