Fourty trochanteric fractures treated with a compression hip screw are here reviewed.
The average age of these is 74.6 years, with a range of fourty-four to eighty-seven years. Thirty-three patients were women and seven were men. All of them were classified according to the method of Jensen. The early results of thirty-two cases in this series were analyzed. Twenty-five (78.1%) of thirty-two patients were ambulatory at the time follow-up. There was no non-union and malunion. No screw protruded into the joint except in a case of postoperative avascular necrosis of the femoral head. Nineteen (90.5%) of twenty-one unstable fractures showed telescoping of the device and medial disclacement of the distal fragment.
