title: The treatment of trochanteric hip fractures using a compression screw.
abstract: One hundred and four consecutive intertrochanteric hip fractures treated with a compression screw were reviewed. Despite death and lack of follow-up, the late results in sixty-two cases of fracture were analyzed. Three non-unions and one malunion gave the technique a failure rate of only 6.4 per cent. Twenty-two patients with both stable and unstable fractures were allowed to bear weight as early as tolerated, in an average of fourteen days. Early weight-bearing did not appear to compromise the end result.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001863:Bone Screws / Q000009:adverse effects; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005265:Femoral Neck Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000009:adverse effects; D005599:Fractures, Ununited / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008124:Locomotion; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D011859:Radiography; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000209:etiology; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000453:epidemiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014945:Wound Healing