The treatment of trochanteric hip fractures using a compression screw

One hundred and four consecutive intertrochanteric hip fractures treated with a compression screw were reviewed. Despite death and lack of follow-up, the late results in sixty-two cases of fracture were analyzed. Three non-unions and one malunion gave the technique a failure rate of only 6.4 per cent. Twenty-two patients with both stable and unstable fractures were allowed to bear weight as early as tolerated, in an average of fourteen days. Early weight-bearing did not appear to compromise the end result.