AVASCULAR NECROSIS OF THE FEMORAL-HEAD AS SEQUELA OF FRACTURE OF THE GREATER TROCHANTER - A CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

After a fall from a tree, a 12-year-old boy sustained a fracture of th e greater trochanter and was subsequently treated by open reduction. T wenty months after surgery, the hip developed to a flexion contracture , limb-length discrepancy, a collapsed, irregular-shaped femoral head with sclerotic areas, and a metaphyseal cyst. A growing child with ava scular necrosis of the femoral head after fracture of the greater troc hanter seems not to have been reported in the English language literat ure.