[Change of daily life activity after femoral hip fracture in elderly patients].

Hospital mortality after hip fracture in elderly patients has decreased significantly in previous years. However, patients often show reduction of daily life activity. The aim of the following study was to assess clinical and radiological results nine months after operation of hip fracture.

[The femoral neck fracture in the elderly patient - cemented or cementless hip arthroplasty?].

This is a report on the treatment results of femoral neck fractures with a cemented (group 1) and cementless (group 2) type of hip prosthesis, resp. 72 patients were enrolled. 35 patients were treated with a cemented hip prosthesis (mean age: 78 years), and 37 patients with a cementless modular hip prosthesis (mean age: 77 years).

[Treatment of per- and subtrochanteric femoral fractures by gamma nails and modular hip prostheses. Differential indications and results].

From January 1997 to August 1998 all stable and nonstable trochanteric femoral fractures (n = 72) were treated routinely by gamma nail using the correct operative technique. Patients showing additional osteoarthritis of the hip in radiographs hip replacement was performed by a cementless modular femoral hip prostheses from January 1996 to August 1998 (n = 28). Follow up period was 6 to 18 months.