<prompt> The commonest hip injury in the elderly patients is -StressExtracapsularImpacted neck of femurSubcapital capsular fracture neck of femur  <response>: First see statements of different textbooks:-The femoral neck is the commonest site of fracture in the elderly. ApleysIntertrochanteric fracture is four times more common than neck fracture. EbnezarMore-over fracture intertrochanteric femur occurs in elderly patients even more than fractures of the femoral neck itself. Watson JonesFemoral neck fractures and intertrochanteric fractures occur with about the same frequency. CampbellI cannot comment about the commonest fracture among these two.However, I am sure about the answer as extracapsular fracture includes both extracapsular neck fracture Basal Basicervical fracture and inter-trochanteric fracture. Basal Basicervical fracture is the most common type of neck fracture. So, even if neck fracture and IT fracture occur with same frequency, extracapsular fractures Basal fracture Intertrochanteric fracture are more common than intracapsular transcervical and subcapital fractures. 