• Jia Li, Pengbin Yin, Licheng Zhang, Hua Chen, and Peifu Tang.
• Department of Orthopedics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China. Electronic address: leejia301@163.com.
• Injury. 2019 Nov 1; 50 (11): 1895-1900.

BackgroundDisplaced femoral neck fractures in young adults are most likely to result from high energy trauma that causes a vertically-oriented shearing injury through the femoral neck. The optimal strategy for treatment of displaced femoral neck fractures remains an unsolved challenge in orthopedic surgery.Methodsour group has previously designed a medial anatomical buttress plate (MABP) based on the analysis of the computed tomography (CT) data of anatomical structures derived from a large sample population. In this study, finite element analyses (FEA) were carried out to compare the outcomes of the combination of our MABP with cannulated screws to those of the combination of tubular plate with cannulated screws, and to those of using cannulated screws alone.ResultsMABP resulted in a more stable fixation as compared to the other two approaches, with respect to the femur and the stress distributions, stress peaks, and Z axis displacements.ConclusionsThe FEA encouraged us that addition of a medial buttress plate not only achieved superior medial buttress stability but also achieves superior performance because it perfectly fits with the existing anatomic structure of medial femoral neck. The results from our study may provide references for clinical decision making in dealing with such patients.Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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