Injury
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Case Reports
Dynamic hip screw in the management of reverse obliquity intertrochanteric neck of femur fractures.
To assess the results of treatment of reverse obliquity intertrochanteric fractures at Middlemore hospital and to compare this to the results in the literature. ⋯ The results for treating this type of fracture with the DHS in this series are significantly better than that documented in the literature for the same fracture type, the reasons for this are unclear. There seems to be a trend towards better results with more accurate placement of the lag screw with this device. In this series, the RCN was less successful than the DHS and the PFN was used too infrequently to draw useful conclusions about its effectiveness.