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| 1. |
Which is NOT true about fractured neck of femurs? |
| A. | the leg is shortened and externally rotated in most fractured neck of femurs |
| B. | the main source of blood to the femoral head is via the vessels running within cancellous bone from the diaphysis |
| C. | a subcapital fracture cuts off all the blood to the head of the femur resulting in avascular necrosis |
| D. | the blood supply to the head is increased by vessels in the capsular retinacula and it is this which prevents avascular necrosis of the head after an intertrochanteric fracture |
| E. | the ligamentum teres attaches to the central fovea???? on the femoral head and originates from the acetabulum |
| Answer» D. the blood supply to the head is increased by vessels in the capsular retinacula and it is this which prevents avascular necrosis of the head after an intertrochanteric fracture | |