[Primary management and problems with osteosynthesis of subtrochanteric fractures of the femur].

From 1986 to 1991 we treated 63 patients with subtrochanteric fracture of the femur. The etiology in 53 patients with 40 fractures mostly pedestrians, hit by a car; or motor vehicle accidents, in other words high velocity injuries that resulted in a significant number of multiply injured patients of whom 38 were polytraumatized, by our definition a multiply injured person with a life threatening injury of at least one of the following body parts: head, neck, thorax, abdomen, spine, extremities with neurovascular compromise and pelvic girdle.