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Key Points The treatment of intertrochanteric femur fractures is almost always operative. Compression hip screws are best used in stable fracture patterns and are associated with low rates of complications when properly positioned within the center of the femoral head.…
Introduction Understanding biomechanics is essential for an orthopaedic surgeon. Orthopaedic surgeons are architectural engineers of the human skeleton, and their job in trauma is to repair the skeletal structure if it is fractured or diseased so that it can resume…