Authors response to Assoc. Prof. Metin Uzun's letter to the editor regarding our study: 'Augmented compression in exchange nailing for femoral and tibia non-unions accelerates time to radiographic union'

Simon B C Weil¹, Andreas Fontalis², Myriam Guessoum², Alex Trompeter^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Trauma and Orthopaedics Department, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, London, SW17 0QT, UK. Simon.Weil@doctors.org.uk.
² Trauma and Orthopaedics Department, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, London, SW17 0QT, UK.
³ St George's University of London, London, UK.

Comment

Simon B C Weil et al. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol. 2022 Aug.

. 2022 Aug;32(6):1221.

doi: 10.1007/s00590-021-03112-y. Epub 2021 Sep 9.

Simon B C Weil¹, Andreas Fontalis², Myriam Guessoum², Alex Trompeter^{2

3}

¹ Trauma and Orthopaedics Department, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, London, SW17 0QT, UK. Simon.Weil@doctors.org.uk.
² Trauma and Orthopaedics Department, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, London, SW17 0QT, UK.
³ St George's University of London, London, UK.

No abstract available

Comment on

Letter to the editor 'Augmented compression in exchange nailing for femoral and tibia non-unions accelerates time to radiographic union'.
Uzun M. Uzun M. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol. 2022 Aug;32(6):1219. doi: 10.1007/s00590-021-03076-z. Epub 2021 Jul 23. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol. 2022. PMID: 34297197 No abstract available.

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