Describe Bryant's triangle its importance in orthopaedics?

Answer 1

Bryant's triangle is to be drawn while the patient is lying on his back. One side is a perpendicular let fall from the anterior superior spine to the table, the other side is one joining the anterior superior spine and the tip of the greater trochanter, the base is a line running horizontally from the tip of the greater trochanter to the perpendicular line. If the tip of the trochanter becomes elevated, as in fractures of the neck of the femur, it shortens the base of the triangle on the affected side as compared with the base of the triangle on the sound side.