Treatment of fractures of the hip and ipsilateral femur with the Zickel device: a report of three cases.

Three case reports demonstrate the successful management of patients with fractures of the hip and ipsilateral femur using the Zickel device. The hip fractures were base of the femoral neck, trochanteric and substrochanteric. The ipsilateral femur fractures consisted of 2 shaft fractures and 1 supracondylar femur fracture. These 3 cases, added to those previously reported in the literature, suggest that this form of intramedullary fixation should be considered for fractures of the hip combined with fractures of the shaft of the femur and possibly even supracondylar region.