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Andrew Howard, James Hunter, Theddy Slongo

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Fergal Monsell

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Chris Colton

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31-M/3.1 III   Complete transtrochanteric, simple

The morphology of this fracture is a simple fracture at the level of the trochanters.

In principle, this extracapsular fracture should not cause avascular necrosis (AVN).

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