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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 | |