ArticleFrontiers in surgery2026
Study on the predictive value of femoral head HU values in hip fractures.
Article in Frontiers in surgery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: This study investigates whether the CT Hounsfield Unit (HU) value of the femoral head can differentiate femoral neck fractures (FNF) from intertrochanteric femoral fractures (IFF), and whether it can serve as an indicator for predicting the complexity of intertrochanteric fractures. Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 234 patients (117 with FNF and 117 with IFF), measuring the average HU value of the femoral head on preoperative CT. According to the Orthopaedic Trauma Association/AO Foundation (AO/OTA) classification, IFFs were categorized into stable (A1.1-A2.1) and unstable (A2.2-A3) types. Statistical comparisons were performed using independent sample Results: HU values could not distinguish FNF from IFF, but within IFFs, unstable fractures had significantly lower HU values than stable ones. Male patients had significantly higher HU values than females. ROC analysis suggested that HU values showed high specificity (91.89%) but low sensitivity (17.5%) for predicting intertrochanteric fracture stability, with moderate overall diagnostic performance (AUC = 0.6764). Gender-specific thresholds were identified but also showed moderate performance. These values support a rule-in role rather than general screening. Conclusion: Femoral head HU values are a reliable imaging marker for predicting intertrochanteric fracture stability and identifying high-risk patients, particularly women with unstable fractures, with consideration for sex differences in application.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.