Treatment of intracapsular hip fractures by the Deyerle method. A comparative review of one hundred and nineteen cases.

In a retrospective review of 119 intracapsular hip fractures treated by the Deyerle method (seventy-nine patients treated at San Francisco General Hospital and forty at Brookside Community Hospital), fifty-nine patients were available for follow-up after two or more years or were rated as failures before that time. In the San Francisco General series the incidence of avascular necrosis was 43 per cent and of non-union, 23 per cent, while in the Brookside series the incidences were 12.5 per cent and 12.5 per cent, respectively. The functional end results in the San Francisco General series were rated excellent or satisfactory in 40 per cent and failures in 60 per cent, and in the Brookside series there were 75 per cent excellent or satisfactory results and 25 per cent failures.