SOMOS Annual meeting
Tracking Pixel
presents
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Stable Frx





- See: Radiographic Findings:
- stable intertroch frx is one that when reduced has cortical contact
      w/o gap medially and posteriorly;
      - this contact will prevent frx displacement into varus or retro-
          version when forces are applied to proximal femur;
- medial cortices are not comminuted & there is no displaced frx of
      lesser trochanter;




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