Pediatric Femoral Neck Fractures: Our Institutional Experience of 5 Years

Pediatric Femoral Neck Fractures: Our 10 Years of Experience

BACKGROUND Femoral neck fractures are rare injuries in children, but the high incidence of long term complications make it an important clinical entity. The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze the clinical outcomes of pediatric femur neck fractures that we managed over a 10 year period. METHODS The study included 36 children (20 boys and 16 girls) who sustained femoral neck fractur...

Open Reduction of Pediatric Femoral Neck Fractures Reduces Osteonecrosis Risk.

Pediatric femoral neck fractures are rare injuries that are associated with a high risk of osteonecrosis of the femoral head. This study compared pediatric patients with fully displaced femoral neck fractures treated with either open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) or closed reduction and internal fixation (CRIF). After institutional review board approval was obtained, the authors identi...

Body Contouring Surgery: Our 5 Years Experience

Femoral Neck Fractures

We have conducted a retrospective study on a group of 124 patients who had been hospitalized and operated on in the Department of Orthopaedics of the Clinic Emergency Hospital of Braşov County in 2013. The parameters we focused on were the following: the sex and age of the patients, the type of fracture, the surface of the femur where the fracture occurred, and the type of surgery performed.

[Femoral neck fractures].

Bone Joint J 2014;96-B(11 Suppl A):43–7. Surgical interventions consisting of internal fixation (IF) or total hip replacement (THR) are required to restore patient mobility after hip fractures. Conventionally, this decision was based solely upon the degree of fracture displacement. However, in the last ten years, there has been a move to incorporate patient characteristics into the decision mak...