For operative treatment of unstable trochanteric fractures two options exist: extramedullary or
intramedullary stabilisation. A review of 18 international papers that compared two different …

The worldwide prevalence of hip fracture is increasing as the mean age of the population
increases. Despite advances in anesthesia, nursing care, and surgical techniques, however …

Failure of fixation of peritrochanteric fractures that have been treated with a fixed-angle
sliding hip-screw device is frequently related to the position of the lag screw in the femoral …

We compared the results of the surgical treatment of trochanteric hip fractures before and
after surgeons had been introduced to the tip-apex distance (TAD) as a method of …

The proximal femoral nail (PFN) is a recently introduced intramedullary system, designed to
improve treatment of unstable trochanteric fractures of the hip. In a multicentre prospective …

In a cohort of 169,145 patients with a hip fracture and 524,010 controls we observed an
excess mortality among patients compared to controls for as long as 20 years after the hip …

Objectives: To compare the results between a new intramedullary Gamma nail and a
compression hip screw in the treatment of trochanteric fractures. Design: Prospective …

A prospective, randomized study comparing the compression hip screw with the Gamma nail
in the treatment of 426 intertrochanteric fractures is reported. The median patient age was 80 …

Objective: To determine gender-specific differences in prefracture status and postoperative
outcome in elderly hip fracture patients who were ambulatory, community-dwelling, and …

A meta-analysis has been carried out of all published randomised trials which compare the
gamma with the DHS nail, giving in a total of 1794 patients with extracapsular femoral …