In a retrospective review of 119 intracapsular hip fractures treated by
the Deyerle method (seventy-nine patients treated at San Francisco General
Hospital and forty at Brookside Community Hospital), fifty-nine patients
were available for follow-up after two or more years or were rated as
failures before that time. In the San Francisco General series the
incidence of avascular necrosis was 43 per cent and of non-union, 23 per
cent, while in the Brookside series the incidences were 12.5 per cent and
12.5 per cent, respectively. The functional end results in the San
Francisco General series were rated excellent or satisfactory in 40 per
cent and failures in 60 per cent, and in the Brookside series there were 75
per cent excellent or satisfactory results and 25 per cent failures.