Letter to the Editor: Intramedullary nails result in more reoperations than sliding hip screws in two-part intertrochanteric fractures

摘要

To the Editor:We are interested in the article, "Intramedullary Nails Result in More Reoperations Than Sliding Hip Screws in Two-part Intertrochanteric Fractures" by Matre et al. [4]. The authors concluded that sliding hip screws likely are the preferred implant for simple two-part intertrochanteric fractures. The conclusion is useful to our clinical work. The Norwegian Hip Fracture Register (NHFR) is an outstanding management system for analysis and statistics involving hip fracture studies. Valuable information can be obtained from intertrochanteric fractures through this rich database. Based on large numbers of surgical procedures, the conclusions should be reliable and valuable. We ben-efitted from previous articles related to the NHFR [1, 4, 5] and we thank the study authors for their work.