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Impacted femoral neck fracture. There is no consensus treatment. Conservative non-operative treatment may lead to deconditioning secondary to prolonged activity restrictions and will fail up to 46% of the time secondary to displacement of the fracture fragments requiring delayed surgical fixation. On the upside, a certain percentage of patients will do just fine avoiding the scalpel.
Source
Cees, C. et al. "High secondary displacement rate in the conservative treatment of impacted femoral neck fractures in 105 patients" Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2005.
Koval, K. and Zuckerman, J. Handbook of Fractures. 2nd ed. 2002.
