Abstract
Neoplastic destructive disease involving the subtrochanteric region of the femur is a difficult condition to treat. This is a retrospective study of 11 femurs in 10 patients with subtrochanteric destructive lesions or pathologic fractures that were stabilized with the Zickel intramedullary device. The study investigated underlying disease process, ambulatory status, operative parameters, time to death, and associated metastasis. The average survival time of the patients who died was 4.7 months. All of the patients involved in this study could be mobilized, but only 3 out of 10 were ambulatory. This study concludes that the intramedullary fixation of pathologic fractures or lesions of the subtrochanteric region does not necessarily allow ambulation, but does allow mobilization of debilitated patients.
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