The intertrochanteric area is where your hip and thigh meet. Learn more about the risk of fractures in this area, the symptoms of intertrochanteric fractures, treatment options, and more.

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 ...

Her knee was previously functioning well. However, 4 months prior to her current presentation, she fell and sustained a left distal periprosthetic femur fracture (Figure 1).

Femoral neck fractures: These fractures occur if the ball of the ball-and-socket joint is broken at the top of the femur. Intertrochanteric hip fractures: These fractures occur just below the femoral ...

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.

Intertrochanteric hip fracture: An intertrochanteric hip fracture occurs farther away. It’s about 3 to 4 inches from the joint. It doesn’t stop blood flow to the femur.

The paper “Proximal Femur Bionic Nail (PFBN): A Panacea for Unstable Intertrochanteric Femur Fracture,” authored by Kaixuan Zhang, Wei Chen, Yingze Zhang. Full text of the open access paper ...

Preventing Future Osteoporotic Fragility Fractures After surgery for fracture of her left hip, an active 72-year-old woman is evaluated by a multidisciplinary team of experts for osteoporosis and ...

For a clearly stable fracture, the sliding hip screw was always more cost effective than other options. On the other hand, the intramedullary nail always dominated for clearly unstable fractures 5.

Among patients with mild dementia and a fracture of the head or neck of the femur, mortality at 180 days was 26.5% among surgical patients and 34.9% among nonsurgical patients (RR, 0.67; 95% CI, 0 ...