Biomechanical efficacy of a medial buttress plate in the management of concomitant ipsilateral subcapital and intertrochanteric femoral fractures: a finite element analysis
Rongzhen He, Lvfang Ying, Nuo Yin, Ping Huang, Liang Ding · 2026
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Description
Rongzhen He and co-authors stress-test a double-plated fix for a nasty paired hip fracture. Some breaks hit the femoral neck and the intertrochanteric zone on the same side at once. Fixation failures run high. Their hospital adds a medial buttress plate to the standard proximal plate, with good early results but no biomechanical proof. Their 2026 study builds a finite element model of the broken femur. Both constructs are loaded as in walking, stumbling, and a sideways fall.
Deformation, implant stress, and fracture-site strain are compared load by load. The standard plate alone bends more at every stiffness setting. At one walking setting the gap is wide: roughly sixty-eight millimeters against fifty-two for the double plate. The buttress earns its place in simulation; clinical trials remain the next court.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rongzhen He, Lvfang Ying, Nuo Yin, Ping Huang, Liang Ding |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |