RT Journal
A1 Parker, Martyn J.
T1 Results of Internal Fixation of Pauwels Type-3 Vertical Femoral Neck Fractures
JF The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
JO The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
YR 2009
FD February 1
VO 91
IS 2
SP 490
OP 491
DO 
UL http://dx.doi.org/
AB 
In their recent article, "Results of Internal Fixation of Pauwels Type-3 Vertical Femoral Neck Fractures" (2008;90:1654-9), Liporace et al. state that, to their knowledge, there are no large clinical series presenting the results of internal fixation of high-shear-angle fractures. In fact, there are a number of such clinical reports, involving a total of 1808 patients, which have investigated the relationship between the Pauwels grade and the occurrence of fracture-healing complications1-6. Essentially, these studies failed to find any notable association between fracture-healing complications and the Pauwels angle or grade.