An intertrochanteric fracture is a specific type of hip fracture. “Intertrochanteric” means “between the trochanters,” which are bony protrusions on the femur (thighbone). They’re the ...

Some 38% to 50% of fractures in the hip area are intertrochanteric. Intertrochanteric fractures are rare in younger people. Your risk increases as you age and your bones become weaker.

Hip fractures (categorized according to anatomical location as a femoral-neck fracture or an intertrochanteric or subtrochanteric fracture) can have a devastating effect on quality of life and ...

Doyle, Daniel S. Horwitz, MD, and colleagues retrospectively reviewed data from nearly 3,000 intertrochanteric femur fractures treated with short proximal femoral nails between 2007 and 2023.

Femoral neck fractures ... Subcapital and transcervical fractures are intracapsular and behave differently from basicervical fractures, which tend to act like intertrochanteric fractures and ...

Case 1 (732226) (Fig. 5). H. S., a 20-year-old man, sustained a comminuted, oblique, simple fracture of the midshaft of the left femur on March 23, 1951, when the body of an automobile fell on him ...

Severely comminuted distal femur fractures require anatomic internal fixation for best results, but obtaining rigid fixation of the multiple fragments may be challenging or impossible using ...

More information: Kaixuan Zhang et al, Proximal Femur Bionic Nail (PFBN): A Panacea for Unstable Intertrochanteric Femur Fracture, Engineering (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2024.01.010 ...

For intertrochanteric femur fractures, be aware of the lateral wall. For subtrochanteric femur fractures, utilize clamp-assisted reductions in an overlay format to facilitate reduction and ...

Fractures of the femoral head are rare but may result from a high-impact injury. Below this is the intertrochanteric area (below the neck but above the longer shaft of the femur), which has two ...