Surgeons should identify high-risk patients and surgical risk factors ... to just see a little bit of femur and miss that neck cut. Those early postoperative fractures are almost all missed ...

Background: Femoral neck fractures in the elderly make up a large proportion of Orthopaedic surgical admissions each year. Operating on patients with clopidogrel poses a challenge because of the ...

AST/ALT ratio may predict 1-year mortality in elderly patients operated for femoral neck fracture suggests a study published ...

The majority of older patients who sustain a valgus impacted or a nondisplaced femoral neck fracture should be treated with internal fixation rather than joint reconstruction. While surgical ...

Few studies have assessed its use following hip fracture surgery. The new clinical trial enrolled 50 older adults undergoing hip hemiarthroplasty for isolated intracapsular femoral neck fractures.