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==Background== | |||
* Imaging | |||
**Consider AP pelvis in addition to AP/lateral views to compare contralateral side | |||
**Consider MRI if strong clinical suspicion but negative x-ray | |||
*Most fx, including all displaced fx, are treated with ORIF | |||
**Exception is isolated trochanteric fx often does not require surgery | |||
*Skeletal traction is not beneficial | |||
*Type and cross/screen for pts at higher risk of hemorrhage: | |||
**Age > 75 yrs | |||
**Initial Hb < 12 | |||
**Peritrochanteric fx | |||
*Despite good care, 30-day all cause mortality is 22% and grows to 36% at one year<ref>Lawrence, VA, et al. Medical complications and outcomes after hip fracture repair. Arch Intern Med. 2002; 162(18):2053-7.</ref> | |||
[[File:Location of femur fracture.png|thumb|Location of femur fractures]] | |||
{{Femur fracture types}} | |||
==Clinical Features== | |||
==Differential Diagnosis== | |||
{{Hip pain DDX}} | |||
==Intracapsular== | |||
==Extracapsular== | |||
==See Also== | |||
*[[Fractures (Main)]] | |||
==References== | |||
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[[Category:Ortho]] | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
Revision as of 21:49, 8 June 2015
Femur Fracture Types
Proximal
- Intracapsular
- Extracapsular
Shaft
- Mid-shaft femur fracture (all subtrochanteric)
Background
- Imaging
- Consider AP pelvis in addition to AP/lateral views to compare contralateral side
- Consider MRI if strong clinical suspicion but negative x-ray
- Most fx, including all displaced fx, are treated with ORIF
- Exception is isolated trochanteric fx often does not require surgery
- Skeletal traction is not beneficial
- Type and cross/screen for pts at higher risk of hemorrhage:
- Age > 75 yrs
- Initial Hb < 12
- Peritrochanteric fx
- Despite good care, 30-day all cause mortality is 22% and grows to 36% at one year[1]
Femur Fracture Types
Proximal
- Intracapsular
- Extracapsular
Shaft
- Mid-shaft femur fracture (all subtrochanteric)
Clinical Features
Differential Diagnosis
Hip pain
Acute Trauma
- Femur fracture
- Proximal
- Intracapsular
- Extracapsular
- Shaft
- Mid-shaft femur fracture (all subtrochanteric)
- Proximal
- Hip dislocation
- Pelvic fractures
Chronic/Atraumatic
- Hip bursitis
- Psoas abscess
- Piriformis syndrome
- Meralgia paresthetica
- Septic arthritis
- Obturator nerve entrapment
- Avascular necrosis of hip
Intracapsular
Extracapsular
See Also
References
- ↑ Lawrence, VA, et al. Medical complications and outcomes after hip fracture repair. Arch Intern Med. 2002; 162(18):2053-7.