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SummaryA 67-year-old woman sustained electric shock while using her hair dryer. During this process her left leg shot up in the air following which she could not walk properly with that leg. She attended the accident and emergency and, considering a possibility of an undisplaced fracture of the calcaneum, she was referred to the fracture clinic the next day. She was clinically diagnosed to have tendoachilles rupture and this was further confirmed by an ultrasound scan. Predisposing factors like drug intake or chronic inflammatory arthritis were excluded and she was treated with conservative management. BACKGROUND

Fracture of the femoral neck is a common injury in the elderly population and may be associated with significant morbidity. More than 25,000 patients per year in the UK receive treatment for femoral neck fractures. Neurological injury associated with pertrochanteric fracture of the neck of the femur is rare. Sciatic nerve injury following isolated pertrochanteric femoral neck fractures is very rare and has not previously been reported in the literature. We describe a case of foot drop secondary to sciatic nerve injury following fracture of neck of the femur, with recovery after surgical exploration and nerve release. (Hip International 2002; 4: 400-2).