The commonest hip injury in the elderly patients is:: (A) Stress fracture, (B) Extracapsular fracture, (C) Impacted fracture neck of femur, (D) Sub capital capsular fracture neck of femur
Answer is B. (b) Extracapsular fracture- "The femoral neck is the common site of fracture in the elderly". "Moreover fracture intertrochanteric femur occurs in elderly patients even more than fractures of femoral neck itself".