Open AccessPreoperative Anterior and Posterior Tilt of Garden I-II Femoral Neck Fractures Predict Treatment Failure and Need for Reoperation in Patients Over 60 Years
Author(s) -
Pontus Sjöholm,
Jonas Sundkvist,
Olof Wolf,
Olof Sköldenberg,
Max Gordon,
Sebastian Mukka
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jb and js open access
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.786
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 2472-7245
DOI - 10.2106/jbjs.oa.21.00045
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , implant failure , hazard ratio , femoral neck , internal fixation , retrospective cohort study , radiography , implant , proportional hazards model , fixation (population genetics) , osteoporosis , population , confidence interval , environmental health
The purpose of the present study was to estimate the effect of preoperative fracture tilt and to scrutinize the effect of anterior tilt on the risk of treatment failure in patients with Garden Type-I and II femoral neck fractures that are treated with internal fixation.