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Classification of Intertrochanteric Fractures




- See: Unstable Intertrochanteric Fractures:

- Type I:   non displaced, stable intertrochanteric s comminution;

- Type II:   stable, minimally comminuted, but displaced frx
            - 36% of intertroch frx

- Type III: has a large posteromedial comminuted area and are unstable;
            - 28% of intertroch frx

- Type-IV:   consists of an intertrochanteric frx w/ a subtroch component.
            - 15% of intertroch frx;

- Reversed Obliquity Frx:

(from Boyd and Griffin: Arch. Surg. 1949);





Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.