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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 94-B, Issue SUPP_XXXVII | Pages 304 - 304
1 Sep 2012
Viberg B Ryg J Lauritsen J Overgaard S Ovesen O
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Background

The treatment of femoral neck fracture with internal fixation (IF) is recommended in younger patients and has compared to arthroplasty the advantage of retaining the femoral head. A big problem with osteosynthesis is though failure. Finding predictors for fixation failure is still an ongoing process and osteoporosis has been suggested as a predictor.

Aim

To correlate bone mineral density (BMD) in regard to failure of IF in osteosynthesized femoral neck fractures.