Table 4: Method of diagnosis versus time of diagnosis of femoral neck fracture in IFNSF
| Method of diagnosis | No of series (References) | No of cases | Preoperative | Intraoperative | Postoperative |
| X-rays only | 78 [26,28,30-45,47,48,51-54,57-59,61,62,64,66-68,70,72-86,89-91,93,94,96-98,100-102,104,106,107,109] and the present series |
1163 | 86.41% | 4.55% | 9.88% |
| X-rays - CT | 4 [65,69,92,97] |
81 | 90.12% | 4.94% | 4.94% |
| X-rays - CT - fluoroscopy | 4 [71,82,93,99] |
79 | 88.60% | 5.06% | 6.34% |