BLIND NAILING TECHNIQUE FOR INSERTION OF THE TRIFLANGE MEDULLAR NAIL

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Abstract
The blind nailing for fractures of the shaft of the tibia has a great advantage over the open method, and the technique as developed here appears to be relatively easy after one is able to overcome several difficulties that occur when the first few nailings are done. These difficulties are: (1) the cutting of a slanting hole of sufficient diameter (0.37 in. or 0.93 cm.) in the right direction through the anterior mesial cortex of the tibia to permit the nail to be inserted at a very acute angle (fig. 1); (2) starting the nail with the tip of the nail aimed at the crest of the tibia at the junction of the middle one-third and lower one-third of the tibia and with the flange on the concave side of the nail in the same plane as the tibial crest in this region, permitting easy passage of the nail through

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