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A 2-year-old girl sustained a closed, displaced fracture of the right femoral shaft. The oblique fracture pattern in the diaphysis and 1.5 cm of shortening made the fracture amenable to traditional closed treatment methods. A closed reduction of the right femoral shaft fracture was performed followed by hip spica cast application. This technique has been shown to be effective in children younger than 6 years with less than 2 cm of shortening. The fracture healed without complications or subsequent manipulation in 1 month. By 9 months, the fracture had remodeled to near anatomic alignment with no significant leg length discrepancy.
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Saper, M.G. (2020). Femoral Shaft Fracture: Spica Cast. In: Iobst, C., Frick, S. (eds) Pediatric Orthopedic Trauma Case Atlas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29980-8_96
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