Trauma and orthopedicsSpecial
Intramedullary nail (nailing system)
Metal nail inserted into the medullary canal of a long bone, locked with proximal and distal screws.
How it is used
Internal fixation of femoral, tibial or humeral fractures.
Sources
This entry is part of the Instriq catalog, researched and written per specialty from real web research -- never generated or invented without verification -- and reviewed skeptically and independently before publication. How this catalog is written.
Image: Netha Hussain, Wikimedia Commons. License CC BY-SA 3.0. View original source.
History
Added to the catalog on 2026-09-29.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.