SUBCAPITAL FRACTURE OF THE NECK OF THE FEMUR

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The question of the proper treatment for all varieties of fracture of the neck of the femur seems at last to have been settled. In other words, the abduction treatment—the Whitman method—has been accepted by surgeons acquainted with the treatment of fractures. The subject of fracture of the neck of the femur in general, however, is still open to discussion. To make the subject as clear as possible, I think it advisable to adopt, instead of the time-worn and somewhat vague intracapsular and extracapsular fracture, the more definite French terminology. Fractures of the neck of the femur are classified by Delbet as (1) subcapital, (2) transcervical, (3) cervicotrochanteric and (4) pertrochanteric, as illustrated by figure 1. This classification is important because opinion seems to be unanimous that the last two forms of the fracture will unite under any form of treatment. The application of the abduction method to them, therefore,

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