The incidence of concomitant ipsilateral femoral neck fractures in the setting of high-energy femoral shaft fractures has been reported to be as high as 9%, with the reported rate of missed ...

Use of rapid limited-sequence MRI in patients with femoral shaft fractures may help identify femoral neck fractures not diagnosed on thin-cut high-resolution CT without delaying definitive ...

Femoral neck fracture is a type of hip fracture common in elderly, ... If pain persists in the presence of a normal Plain x-ray, an MRI may be done to rule out a hairline or an occult fracture. 3.

Since the first report of this injury pattern by Delaney and Street in 1953, the late diagnosis of occult femoral neck fracture associated with ipsilateral femoral shaft fracture has been problematic.

Femoral-neck fractures may be nondisplaced (i.e., very little separation at the fracture site, occurring in approximately one third of femoral-neck fractures) or displaced (i.e., greater separation).

Kevin K. Kang, MD, from Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, and colleagues randomly assigned 50 patients with an isolated intracapsular femoral neck fracture and treated with hip ...

Javdan, M., M. Bahadori, and A. Hosseini, Evaluation the treatment outcomes of Intracapsular femoral neck fractures with closed or open reduction and internal fixation by screw in 18-50-year old ...

Most complications following ipsilateral femoral neck and shaft fracture are related to the femoral neck fracture. The two major ones are nonunion and osteonecrosis. The small numbers and multiple ...

The estimated number of hip fractures worldwide will rise from 1.7 million in 1990 to 6.3 million in 2050. 2 Femoral neck fractures represent approximately 50% of these cases. 3 ...