Senile femoral intertrochanteric fracture treated with the combination of external fixator and traditional Chinese medicine / 中国矫形外科杂志

ABSTRACT

[Objective]To observe the therapeutic effect of the combined external fixator and traditional Chinese medicine for senile femoral intertrochanteric fracture.[Method]There were sixty-eight cases for study .Thirty-five cases in treatment group were treated with external fixator in perculaneous transhepatic through Minimally Invasive Skill (MIK),together with oral medication of traditional Chinese medicine,while thirty-three cases in the control group only underwent external fixator.[Result]All of the cases had been followed up for an average period of three years and ten months,which arranged from one year and eight month to six years and nine months . The fracture healing time in the treated group was 12.4?2.5 weeks and that in the control group was 15.5?2.9 weeks,showing significant difference between them (P