Operation FUBAR: Eight Challenging Hips with Nick Mast
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What do you do when the foot slips out of the traction boot mid-case — and a manageable periprosthetic fracture becomes a femur in pieces? Dr. Nick Mast has an answer, because it happened to him.
Nick Mast, a hip and pelvis surgeon in private practice in San Francisco, trained under Joel Matta at the Hip and Pelvis Institute in 2007–2008 and completed hip preservation training in Europe. He's also a second-generation surgeon — son of fracture-surgery pioneer Jeff Mast — and his practice runs heavy on the cases other surgeons send away: complex trauma, revisions, non-unions…
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