Ipsilateral femoral neck and trochanter fracture

Ipsilateral fractures in the neck and trochanteric region of the femur are very rare and seen in elderly osteoporotic patients. We present a case of a young man who presented with ipsilateral fracture of the femoral neck and a reverse oblique fracture in the trochanteric region following a motor veh...

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Autores principales: Neogi, Devdatta S, Ajay Kumar, K V, Trikha, Vivek, Yadav, Chandra Shekhar
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21221230
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.54765
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author Neogi, Devdatta S
Ajay Kumar, K V
Trikha, Vivek
Yadav, Chandra Shekhar
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description Ipsilateral fractures in the neck and trochanteric region of the femur are very rare and seen in elderly osteoporotic patients. We present a case of a young man who presented with ipsilateral fracture of the femoral neck and a reverse oblique fracture in the trochanteric region following a motor vehicle accident. A possible mechanism, diagnostic challenge, and awareness required for identifying this injury are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-30040882011-01-10 Ipsilateral femoral neck and trochanter fracture Neogi, Devdatta S Ajay Kumar, K V Trikha, Vivek Yadav, Chandra Shekhar Indian J Orthop Case Report Ipsilateral fractures in the neck and trochanteric region of the femur are very rare and seen in elderly osteoporotic patients. We present a case of a young man who presented with ipsilateral fracture of the femoral neck and a reverse oblique fracture in the trochanteric region following a motor vehicle accident. A possible mechanism, diagnostic challenge, and awareness required for identifying this injury are discussed. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3004088/ /pubmed/21221230 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.54765 Text en © Indian Journal of Orthopaedics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Neogi, Devdatta S
Ajay Kumar, K V
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Yadav, Chandra Shekhar
Ipsilateral femoral neck and trochanter fracture
title Ipsilateral femoral neck and trochanter fracture
title_full Ipsilateral femoral neck and trochanter fracture
title_fullStr Ipsilateral femoral neck and trochanter fracture
title_full_unstemmed Ipsilateral femoral neck and trochanter fracture
title_short Ipsilateral femoral neck and trochanter fracture
title_sort ipsilateral femoral neck and trochanter fracture
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21221230
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.54765
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