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Are there different types of a hip fracture?

Hip fractures may be described as intracapsular when the fracture occurs up in the head or neck of the thigh bone (femur), inside the joint capsule; or extracapsular, when the fracture occurs lower down, on the upper part of the shaft of the femur.

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Author: Dr Idan Ben-Barak PhD, MSc, BSc (Med)
First answered: 10 Jul 2015
Last reviewed: 14 May 2019
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Category: Perthes disease

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