Twenty-one patients were treated with Zickel nail for neoplastic
pathological fracture or impending pathological fracture: in the femoral
neck in three, in the intertrochanteric region in three, and in the
subtrochanteric region in fifteen. Nineteen patients were restored to
bed-chain status by the third postoperative day, and twenty were able to
walk. Failure of fixation did not occur and there were no infections.