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In 1935 Pauwels presented a classification for femoral neck fractures which mainly refers to intracapsular fractures and which relies on the angle of obliquity of the fracture line in relation to the horizontal plane.
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Lasanianos, N.G., Kanakaris, N.K. (2015). Femoral Neck Fractures. In: Lasanianos, N., Kanakaris, N., Giannoudis, P. (eds) Trauma and Orthopaedic Classifications. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6572-9_68
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