TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Samir Barakat AU - Akram Hassan Azzam , AU - Mohamed Mahmoud Hegazi , AU - Wessam Gaber Elanai , TI - Treatment of trochanteric and subtrochanteric femoral fractures with external fixation / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Samir Barakat , KW - Biological fixation KW - Dynamic external fixation KW - Trochanteric and Subtrochanteric fracture N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Orthopedic Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - The universally accepted treatment modality of intertrochanteric and ubtrochanteric fractures is open\closed reduction and internal fixation using sliding hip screw devices and intramedullary fixation systems as the Gamma - nail . However these fractures commonly occur in a geriatric population well known to suffer from a high rate of peri - operative complications and associated comorbidities resulting in a high rate of morbidities and mortalities when treated traditionally ER -