Femoral neck fracture in children: treatment and complications.

description of the evidence colection Method Searches were conducted in the Medline database. The MeSH (Medical Subject Heading Terms) key-words used for the search were: “femoral neck”, “fractures/surgery”, “child”, “femoral neck fracture/complications”, “decompression surgical”, “internal fixation”. Thus, questions related to the topic were developed with a focus on the following aspects: types of treatment; best time to therapeutic approach; and ideal treatment with lower complication rates. Based on this, the questions were structured using PICO (pacient, intervention, comparison, outcome) methodology, and the search began with the selection of papers with better strength of scientific evidence.