The treatment of medical fractures of the femoral neck

: It is first stressed that medial fractures of the femur neck pose therapeutic and prognostic problems linked above all to biological factors. After reference to the criteria of classification adopted by Linton and Pauwels, the need to adopt fixed parameters in establishing the surgical indication is then asserted. These parameters are the patient's age, understood not only as number of years but also as general and psychic state, and the obliquity of the fracture line or its degree of decomposition. The Authors conclude by establishing four theorectical groups of patients and indicating the treatment they adopted for each group.