highly significantp < 0.001
Highly significant differences in surgical technique also occurred between groups derived from the Paprosky classification ( p < 0.001): 97.3% of all patients grouped in IIIa received surgery performed with “transfemoral cementless fixation”, whereas almost all patients with classifications of IIIB and IV received surgery with “transfemoral cementless fixation + distal locking” (except one patient IIIB who received “transfemoral cementless fixation”).