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Proximal Femur

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These are always part of a combined injury to the hip joint, often as a result of posterior and obturator dislocation or of fracture dislocation. Quite often they are associated with transverse fractures of the acetabulum.

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Ganz, R. (1991). Proximal Femur. In: Manual of INTERNAL FIXATION. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02695-3_11

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