[Our experience in treating femoral neck fractures. Comments on cases treated from 1972 to 1984. A clinico-statistical study].

The Authors report the clinico-statistic results concerning 550 cases of femur neck fractures, representing the casuistry of 12 years' activity developed by the Ortopedico-Traumatological Department of the Hospital Institutes of the Association of the Bergamo Lowland Communes, USSL nr. 32 (from 1972 up to 1984). After considering the main etiologic factors of this injury, the Authors study the surgical techniques adopted, discuss the indications, state the results obtained, and do some remarks about the patients' functional and social recovery. The Authors emphasize the importance of an early and valid osteosynthesis allowing a quicker functional recovery, a reduction in the times of stay in bed and an extension in the average survival of such patients.