Abstract:[Objective] To evaluate the clinical efficacy of diamond- shaped (DS) versus inverted triangular (IT) cannulated screw placements for internal fixation of femoral neck fractures by meta-analysis. [Methods] Databases including CNKI, VIP, Wanfang Medical database, Sinomed, Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library were searched for all clinical studies on the comparison of the efficacy of DS versus IT cannulated screw placement for femoral neck fracture from the establishment of the database to March 2022. Af- ter literatures were screened by two researchers, the data were extracted with evaluation of the methodological quality to meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria. RevMan5.4 Software was used for meta-analysis. [Results] A total of 5 articles were enrolled in this study, involving 387 patients, including 178 patients in the DS group and 209 patients in the IT group. As results of the meta-analysis, the DS group had sig- nificantly greater intraoperative blood loss than the IT group (P<0.05) , while the former had significantly higher Harris score at last followup than the latter (P<0.05) . However, there were no significant differences in terms of operation time, fracture nonunion rate, femoral head necrosis rate, screw displacement rate and femoral neck shortening rate between the two groups (P>0.05) . [Conclusion] Although the DS cannulated screw placement has considerably greater intraoperative blood loose, this screw placement configuration does achieve better out- come in term of Harris score than the inverted triangle configuration. There was no significant difference between the two configurations in fracture nonunion rate, femoral head necrosis rate, screw displacement rate, femoral neck shortening rate and other long-term complica- tions