Influence of associated femoral head fractures on surgical outcomes following osteosynthesis in posterior wall acetabular fractures

Table 5 Fracture sequelae in patients who received different treatments for femoral head fracture in Group F

	Fixation with screws		Fragment excision/no treatment	p-value
Patients with femoral head fracture (n = 44)	23		21
PTOA	4 (17.4%)		8 (38.1%)	0.23
ONFH	5 (21.7%)		3 (14.3%)	0.80
Conversion to THA	4 (17.4%)		5 (23.8%)	0.88
	Simple fracture	Multi-fragmentary
Patients received ORIF for femoral head fracture (n = 23)	17	6
PTOA	3 (17.6%)	1 (16.7%)		1.00
ONFH	3 (17.6%)	2 (33.3%)		0.58
Conversion to THA	2 (11.8%)	2 (33.3%)		0.27

PTOA post-traumatic osteoarthritis, ONFH osteonecrosis of femoral head, THA total hip arthroplasty, SD standard deviation

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