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Objective: Objective of this study determines the outcome of unipolarhemiarthoplasty in elderly patients with femoral neck fracture at Liaquat University HospitalHyderabad/ Jamshoro. Materials and methods: Total 50 elderly patients were included in thestudy with femoral neck fracture and all the cases were selected from accident, emergency andOPD. All the patients with the history of pregnancy, those patients who were unfit for anesthesia,malignancy, neurological deficits of lower extremity, rheumatoid arthritis and Parkinson’sdisease regarding with systemically disease were excluded from the study. All the patientsunder went surgical hemiarthoplasty treatment with Austin moor-femoral head prosthesia. In thelast all postoperative complications, functional outcome and mortality were noted on proforma.Results: Total 50 patients were included in the study. Mean age of this study was mean±SD64.98±4.13. Females were found in majority with male/ female ratio 1:1.27. Post operative painwas noted in the 50% of the cases and out of them severe pain was noted only in 4% of thecases. Superficial infection was seen in 4% of the cases and deep infection was not found inthe cases and death was occurred in 10% of the patients. On the outcome, excellent resultswere found in the 44.44% of the study participants, good and fair results were seen in 26.66%and 20% respectively, while poor results were seen in 8.88% of the patients. Conclusions: Itis concluded that unipolar hemiarthoplasty is of the reliable procedure by use of Austin-moorfemoral head prosthesia for the treatment of femoral neck fracture in elderly.