Pauwel's angle
Classification of femoral fracture / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pauwel's angle is the angle between the line of a fracture of the neck of the femur and the horizontal as seen on an anterio-posterior radiograph.[1] Pauwel's angle is named after the German orthopedist Friedrich Pauwels.[2] Introduced in 1935, this system was the first biomechanical classification for femoral neck fractures, and is still in use.[3]