Ipsilateral hip and femoral shaft fractures are not uncommon combination fractures in high-energy trauma. Most reports show that diaphyseal fractures are comminuted, as the energy of trauma dissipates through shaft fractures [1, 4, 9, 11, 12, 16], while hip fractures remain relatively undisplaced or minimally displaced. This is one of the reasons why hip fractures are quite frequently missed in polytrauma patients with femoral shaft fractures [13]. It becomes apparent that careful radiological examination of the hip should always be done in all patients with femoral shaft fractures [14].
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Leung, K.S. (2002). Ipsilateral Hip and Diaphyseal Fractures. In: Kempf, I., Leung, K.S., Grosse, A., Haarman, H.J.T.M., Seidel, H., Taglang, G. (eds) Practice of Intramedullary Locked Nails. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56337-9_2
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