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Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures in elderly individuals: A case report and literature review

RATIONALE: Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures are relatively rare injuries that occur frequently in military recruits, athletes and patients with osteoporosis, renal bone disease, metabolic bone disease, and chronic steroid use. Herein, a case of an elderly patient with bilateral femoral neck s...

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Autores principales: Fang, Zhanglu, Cao, Jianhua, Wang, Xun, Zhang, Li
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10508463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37713829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000034681
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Wang, Xun
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description RATIONALE: Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures are relatively rare injuries that occur frequently in military recruits, athletes and patients with osteoporosis, renal bone disease, metabolic bone disease, and chronic steroid use. Herein, a case of an elderly patient with bilateral femoral neck stress fractures is reported. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 65-year-old man presented to the author’s hospital with right hip pain for over a month. The patient was a farmer, had a long history of field labor before the onset of pain, denied any history of trauma. DIAGNOSIS: The patient was diagnosed with a right subcapital fracture of the femoral neck after examination. The patient complained of only right hip symptoms, and hip computed tomography showed no abnormalities in the left hip. A tension fracture of the left femoral neck was missed due to unawareness of the abnormal signal of the left femoral neck seen on right hip magnetic resonance imaging. INTERVENTIONS: During the first hospitalization, the patient underwent total hip arthroplasty (THA) on the right hip. Two months after the operation, the patient started to have pain in the left hip and underwent left THA again for a displaced left femoral neck fracture. OUTCOMES: The patient eventually underwent bilateral THA surgery and had a satisfactory functional recovery. But the oversight in the diagnostic process led to the patient undergoing left THA that could have been avoided. LESSONS: For patients who complain of hip pain but deny a history of trauma, we should be concerned about the presence of a hip fracture even if the patient’s radiograph does not report a positive result. The most sensitive method is bilateral magnetic resonance imaging examination of the hip. Femoral neck stress fractures require early diagnosis and treatment to prevent complications.
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spelling pubmed-105084632023-09-20 Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures in elderly individuals: A case report and literature review Fang, Zhanglu Cao, Jianhua Wang, Xun Zhang, Li Medicine (Baltimore) Research Article: Clinical Case Report RATIONALE: Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures are relatively rare injuries that occur frequently in military recruits, athletes and patients with osteoporosis, renal bone disease, metabolic bone disease, and chronic steroid use. Herein, a case of an elderly patient with bilateral femoral neck stress fractures is reported. PATIENT CONCERNS: A 65-year-old man presented to the author’s hospital with right hip pain for over a month. The patient was a farmer, had a long history of field labor before the onset of pain, denied any history of trauma. DIAGNOSIS: The patient was diagnosed with a right subcapital fracture of the femoral neck after examination. The patient complained of only right hip symptoms, and hip computed tomography showed no abnormalities in the left hip. A tension fracture of the left femoral neck was missed due to unawareness of the abnormal signal of the left femoral neck seen on right hip magnetic resonance imaging. INTERVENTIONS: During the first hospitalization, the patient underwent total hip arthroplasty (THA) on the right hip. Two months after the operation, the patient started to have pain in the left hip and underwent left THA again for a displaced left femoral neck fracture. OUTCOMES: The patient eventually underwent bilateral THA surgery and had a satisfactory functional recovery. But the oversight in the diagnostic process led to the patient undergoing left THA that could have been avoided. LESSONS: For patients who complain of hip pain but deny a history of trauma, we should be concerned about the presence of a hip fracture even if the patient’s radiograph does not report a positive result. The most sensitive method is bilateral magnetic resonance imaging examination of the hip. Femoral neck stress fractures require early diagnosis and treatment to prevent complications. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10508463/ /pubmed/37713829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000034681 Text en Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Article: Clinical Case Report
Fang, Zhanglu
Cao, Jianhua
Wang, Xun
Zhang, Li
Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures in elderly individuals: A case report and literature review
title Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures in elderly individuals: A case report and literature review
title_full Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures in elderly individuals: A case report and literature review
title_fullStr Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures in elderly individuals: A case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures in elderly individuals: A case report and literature review
title_short Bilateral femoral neck stress fractures in elderly individuals: A case report and literature review
title_sort bilateral femoral neck stress fractures in elderly individuals: a case report and literature review
topic Research Article: Clinical Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10508463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37713829
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000034681
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