I'll post these, even though theyre far from pretty. lots of reasons why this or that shouldve couldve wouldve. not something i enjoyed much. Cables doing their best where there was no tube to reconstruct. 85yo bone was dust. screw went into the best bit of the head. open to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 
both vastus lat and glut med on the trochanter fragment. made getting past the lateral wall of tissue a huge PITA without defunctioning something big. managed tho. dozens of intermediate fragnment. only read was lateral distal trochanter to diaphysis. only had 10mm of overlap.
reduced trochanter to neck, ish. bunch of provisional k wires. tried to reduce that to shaft. bizzaro angles, patient fully relaxed but still getting pulled in 11 different directions. cerclage and a bunch of reduction clamps. more k wires. opened up trochanter entry and slid… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
kinda looked half respectable but everything balanced like a house of cards. couple more clamps and cerclage to derotate the neck. swore at it 2 or 3 dozen times. squeezed the screw into the head. everything shifted a touch somewhere along the way. its solid. i guess thats a win
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