title: Considerations with failed intertrochanteric and subtrochanteric femur fractures: how to treat, revise, and replace.
abstract: With the increasing number of intertrochanteric and subtrochanteric femur fractures, there will be an increasing need for surgical intervention. As a result, there will be an increasing number of failures and the need for revision surgery. The following outlines some of the pitfalls related to these complex fractures and options for revision surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dziadosz
mesh_terms: D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D012086:Reoperation; D017211:Treatment Failure