Research Progress of the Surgical Treatment of Subtrochanteric Fractures of the Femur

Abstract

Subtrochanteric femur fracture (SFF) is one of the more common diseases in traumatological orthopaedics, with two types of prevalent populations: young people with high-energy injuries and elderly people with low-energy injuries. Due to the special anatomical location of the subtalar femoral region, perioperative complications, and complex underlying diseases in elderly patients, SFF has become very challenging in clinical treatment. With the gradual attention of many scholars to this disease and the continuous improvement of clinical surgical techniques, there are more and more methods for the treatment of SFF, and its results are getting better and better. In this article, we review the anatomical features, typing and progress of surgical treatment methods of SFF in order to provide more new solutions for the clinical treatment of SFF in the future.