The bundles of trabeculae in proximal femur are:

• Primary compressive
• Primary tensile
• Secondary compressive
• Secondary tensile

Ward’s traingle is an area of the femoral neck formed by the intersection of 3 bundles of trabeculae

• primary compressive trabeculae medially
• primary tensile and secondary compressive trabeculae laterally

1. Ward’s Triangle
2. AIPGMEE 2011 – MCQ 3 – Main blood supply of neck of femur
3. Orthopaedics – MCQ 35 – Subtrochanteric fractures of femur
4. Femoral artery Doppler pattern