Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Role of #Proximal #Femoral Nail in the Treatment of Unstable #Intertrochanteric Fractures by Syed Kamran Ali Shah in BJSTR



Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the functional outcome of unstable #Intertrochanteric fractures treated with proximal #femoral nail while using #Harriship score.
Methods: This is a prospective observational study conducted at #OrthopaedicSurgery Department. Total 91 patients of either gender with age between 18 to 70 years had closed AO type 31A2 and 31A3 unstable Intertorchanteric fractures of proximal femur and for ease labelled as type I and type II subsequently. All patients were operated with proximal Femoral Nail, using a standard prescribed surgical technique. After 3 months of surgery, patient was called for follow up and asked to answer the Harris hip score questionnaire. Effect modifiers were controlled by #stratification using chi square test and p-value ≤0.05 was considered as significant.




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