Causes of Misdiagnosis and Missed Diagnosis in 7 Patients with Femoral Neck Fractures
YANG Bo
YANG Jing
Abstract：Objective To investigate clinical features, causes of misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis of femoral neck fractures and prevention measures. Methods Clinical data of 7 patients with femoral neck fractures between October 2013 and October 2015 was retrospectively analyzed. Results The 7 patients visited doctors for hip joint pain caused by traffic ac-cidents, falls, sprain, falls from heights and so on. Two patients were misdiagnosed as having left hip contusion;2 patients were misdiagnosed as having soft tissue contusion;2 patients were diagnosed as having middle left femoral transverse fractures, and femoral neck fractures were missed diagnosised;1 patient was diagnosed as having middle femoral transverse fractures, and femoral neck fractures were missed diagnosised. Misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis time was 2-7 d. Femoral neck frac-tures were confirmed by X ray or CT examination for the 7 patients, and the patients were treated with surgeries by titanium cannulated compression screw. During postoperative 1 year of follow-up, all fractures healed, and the healing time was 3. 0-4. 5 (3. 75 ± 0. 54) months. Harris score of hip joint was performed 1 year after operation, and excellent and good rate of Har-ris score in the 7 patients was 85. 71%. Conclusion Femoral neck fracture is easy to be misdiagnosed or missed diagnosed due to various causes. Patients with continuous hip pain and obvious tenderness without abnormalities by X-ray should be high-ly suspected femoral neck fracture, and CT examination should be performed early to avoid misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis.
Keywords：Femoral neck fractureMisdiagnosisMissed diagnosisContusion
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 30-33 )