Pathological fractures in the proximal part of the femur treated by Zickel-nail fixation.

Twenty-one patients were treated with Zickel nail for neoplastic pathological fracture or impending pathological fracture: in the femoral neck in three, in the intertrochanteric region in three, and in the subtrochanteric region in fifteen. Nineteen patients were restored to bed-chain status by the third postoperative day, and twenty were able to walk. Failure of fixation did not occur and there were no infections.