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intertrochanteric

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intertrochanteric /in·ter·tro·chan·ter·ic/ (-tro?kan-ter´ik) situated in or pertaining to the space between the greater and lesser trochanters.
intertrochanteric
between the greater and lesser trochanters of the femur.

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The patient was a 68-year old-woman who sustained a comminuted intertrochanteric fracture of the left hip when she slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk.
The researchers from New York looked at a group of 100 patients with isolated femoral neck and intertrochanteric hip fractures.
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