Abstract
We operated on 35 patients (11 males and 24 females) with 35 trochanteric fractures between 1998 and 1999. The age range was from 50 to 97 years with a mean of 80 years. We have performed the operations with Ender nails or friction notch antimigratory intramedullary nails (FN nail) for trochanteric fractures, by turns. We used four or five nails on each patient. We compared 17 patients with Ender nails (group EN: 6 males and 11 females) to 18 patients with FN nails (group FN: 5 males and 13 females). There was no stastical difference between group EN and group FN as to distal migration and proximal migration. In group EN, we used 4 nails for 12 patients and 5 nails for 5 patients, while in group FN, we used 4 nails for all patients. There was significant difference among two groups as to the number of nails.
In conclusion, we could operate on patients with trochanteric fractures with a smaller number of FN nails than Ender nails.
