Citation

Ferris BD, Kennedy C, Bhamra M, Muirhead-Allwood W. J. Bone Joint Surg. Br. 1989; 71(3): 475-477.

Affiliation

Whittington Hospital, London, England.

Comment In:

J Bone Joint Surg Br 2001;83(6):930.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2722943

Abstract

We studied the morphology of the contralateral femur in 10 patients with subcapital fractures, 10 with trochanteric fractures and 10 with unilateral osteoarthritis. We found that the patients with trochanteric fractures had a significantly shorter femoral neck (4.5 +/- 0.5 cm) than patients with subcapital fractures or osteoarthritis (5.4 +/- 0.4 cm). It may be that this difference in femoral neck length is related to the site at which a proximal femoral fracture occurs.

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