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Figure 6.  Greater trochanter clamp. Frontal radiograph shows the greater trochanter, which is attached to the proximal femur by a clamp, and a unipolar hip hemiarthroplasty. A subsequent periprosthetic fracture through the femoral midshaft was transfixed with a reconstruction plate.