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At least 31 cases (23'5 per cent) answered that they had no pain, stiffness, or shortening, and no complaints of the injured leg. Pain in the hip and knee was assumed to be an index of degenerative arthritis and occurred in 33 (24 per cent). Shortening noticeable by the patient (and thus presumed to be at least I in.) was noted by 35 patients (24 per cent). COINCIDENT DISEASE Bronchopneumonia Cardiac insufficiency Carcinoma : Uterus Breast Colon Rectum Cerebral thrombosis Concussion Diabetes mellitus Disseminated sclerosis Epilepsy I Fat embolism (lungs) 2 Dislocation 2 Malaria I Parelysis agrtans 2 Prostatic hypertrophy 2 Fracture associated 3 Osteo-arthritis (hip-joints) 4 Poliomyelitis (same leg) 3 Senile dementia 3 Thyrotcxicosis 3 ## SUMMARY From this range of cases it would appear that :-I. Men seem to break the neck of the femur at a slightly earlier age, less often, and with a greater chance of good function and walk earlier than women. 2. T h e transcervical adduction type of fracture is the commonest pattern. 3. Fractures of the femoral neck tend to occur in earlier age groups than fractures of the intertrochanteric region. 4. The commonest angle of obliquity of the fract

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Author

J. G. Gow; Anthony Walsh

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0007-1323)

Published

1952

Language

LA

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)