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Inclusion Criteria: * Patients 18 years or older. * Patient must have a signed EC approved informed consent. * Patient must have a monolateral or bilateral trochanteric, sub-trochanteric, or shaft fracture requiring surgical intervention or osteotomy and be eligible for fixation by intramedullary nailing. * Patient has been or is scheduled to be treated with the ZNN Bactiguard System Cephalomedullary Nail. * Patient must be able and willing to complete the protocol required follow-up. * Patients capable of understanding the surgeon's explanations and following his instructions. Exclusion Criteria: * Skeletally immature patients * Medullary canal obliterated by a previous fracture or tumor * Bone shaft having excessive bow or a deformity * Lack of bone substance or bone quality, which makes stable seating of the implant impossible * All concomitant diseases that can impair the operation, functioning or the success of the implant * Insufficient blood circulation * Infection * Patient is unwilling or unable to give consent. * Patient is a vulnerable subject (prisoner, mentally incompetent or unable to understand what participation to the study entails, subject with alcohol/drug addiction, known to be pregnant or breastfeeding). * Patient anticipated to be non-compliant and/or likely to have problems complying with the follow-up program (e.g. patient with no fixed address, long-distance, plans to move during course of study).