Garden I II Hip Fractures Wheeless

Description: Garden I & II: Diagnosis and Treatment
Garden I:
- incomplete or impacted fracture, in which the trabeculae of the inferior neck are still intact;
- femoral head is tilted in a posterolateral direction, causing vaglus angulation at the frx site;
Garden II:
- complete frx w/o displacement (as opposed to stress frx)
- wt bearing trabeculae are interrupted by a frx line across entire femoral neck;
- is distinguished from impacted frx by slight varus deformity
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics