The commonest hip injury in the elderly patients is -

First see statements of different textbooks:- "The femoral neck is the commonest site of fracture in the elderly".   —Apley's "Intertrochanteric fracture is four times more common than neck fracture".  —Ebnezar "More-over fracture intertrochanteric femur occurs in elderly patients even more than fractures of the femoral neck itself". — Watson Jones "Femoral neck fractures and intertrochanteric fractures occur with about the same frequency".— Campbell I 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.