Abstract
An 83-year-old lady suffered a fall in which she sustained a closed intertrochanteric fracture of the right femur. She was treated with a dynamic hip screw internal fixation (Fig. 1). She then underwent two operations to evacuate a femoral haematoma. Unfortunately she was transfused with incompatible blood and was transferred to a medical department and treated briefly with steroids. Her haemoglobin, however, continued to fall and a pulsating mass in
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