[Evaluation of the proximal femur geometry in patients with elderly osteoporotic hip fractures].

Objective

To investigate the relationship between the proximal femur geometry and elderly osteoporotic hip fractures.

Methods

From May 2015 to December 2015, 137 patients with elderly osteoporotic hip fractures were involved.69 cases were in the fracture group and 68 cases were in the control group.CT scan were performed on all patients and the proximal femur geometry parameters were measured, including the neck width (NW), neck length (NL), neck shaft angle (NSA), femur head diameter (FHD), head height (HH) and Offset.Statistical analysis was performed between two groups.

Results

The results of single factor analysis showed that age, sex, NL, FHD, NSA and Offset had significantly differences between two groups (P<0.05). The multiple Logistic regression analysis showed that age, sex, NL and NSA were independent risk factor for the hip fractures.The ROC curve analysis showed that area under curve (AUC) were 0.818, 0.818 and 0.725, respectively.

Conclusions

The patients with older age, longer NL and larger NSA might be prone to hip fracture and it was an effective and feasible method to reconstruct and measure the CT data of the proximal femur with Mimics software.