What is a intertrochanteric femur fracture?
What is a intertrochanteric femur fracture? Intertrochanteric fractures are breaks of the femur between the greater and the lesser trochanters. They are extracapsular fractures that is, outside the hip joint’s fibrous capsule. The epidemiology of intertrochanteric fractures is similar to that of femoral neck fractures. What is the mechanism of a femur fracture? Trauma is […]