Abstract
Almost all patients who sustain a femoral neck fracture should have operative treatment. Nonoperative treatment of an impacted femoral neck fracture, although advocated by some, is not recommended. Peter et al. reported a fracture displacement rate of 42% in older patients treated nonoperatively after sustaining Garden type I impacted femoral neck fractures1; when the fracture resulted in retroversion of the femoral head by more than 40°, loss of reduction occurred in 100% of patients.
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Koval, K.J., Zuckerman, J.D. (2000). Pitfalls and Their Avoidance. In: Hip Fractures. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4052-3_8
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