Displaced Femoral Neck Fractures Treated with the Gouffon Pin

Overview

Journal Int Orthop

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 1991 Jan 1

PMID 1917188

Authors

P Gebuhr

B Klareskov

C Hovgaard

T Orsnes

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Abstract

One hundred fractures of the neck of the femur, Garden stage III or IV, were treated with Gouffon pins during a three year period. Seventy-nine were followed from 24 to 52 months. Union occurred in 59 fractures. Eighteen fractures did not unite and 2 became redisplaced within the first week. Avascular necrosis was noted on radiographs in 14 of the 59 united fractures. A higher pin migration rate was found in Garden stage IV fractures, and in the failures.

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