X-ray (front view) showing a row of metal pins fixing a plate to the broken shaft of the femur bone of the leg in a 25 year old female patient followi

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X-ray (front view) showing a row of metal pins fixing a plate to the broken shaft of the femur bone of the leg in a 25 year old female patient following a fall. This break was a spiral fracture; the knee joint is at lower frame. (see X-ray image showing fracture before surgical pinning)

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