[Femoral neck fracture--selection of treatment method].

Authors followed for 4 months the life of 753 patients with femoral fractures of the hip and state, that with an extension of the operative indication the hospital mortality was decreased to the half during 15 years in spite of the further rise of the age. It is contributed first of all to the inadequacy of the rehabilitation that the later mortality is high and it is the double of that in the hospital: not more than 3 of 4 injured reaches the 4 months control.