| Abstract: | Clinical data were reviewed on 99 patients with 102 fractures of the femoral neck on the Orthopedic Service of the San Diego County General Hospital. All were elderly. Twenty-one were dead within two month of the time the fracture was reduced and 36 within a year. In 14 cases the fracture was impacted or undisplaced; there was only one of these in which the fracture did not unite following treatment, and that was for iatrogenic reasons. Sixty-one per cent of the displaced fractures healed; only 32 per cent of the total number of patients with displaced femoral neck fractures walked again. |
