Abstract:Introduction: There have been many advances in internal fixation techniques to deal with poor quality of bone and severely comminuted intertrochanteric fractures so as to allow early ambulation. Failure rates with an internal fixation range between 3% and 12%. There have been a number of technical issues to convert these fractures into hip arthroplasty such as extraction of implants, bone deformity, bone loss, poor bone quality and associated trochanteric nonunion. Intertrochanteric fractures in osteoporotic b… Show more
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