Bilateral Insufficiency Fracture of the Pelvis Following THA: A Case Report

Insufficiency fracture is of the stress fractures and is caused by repetitive stress on fragile bone. Insufficiency fractures of pubic rami are rare occurrences in association with total hip arthroplasty (THA). Postoperative stress fractures occur due to increase of patients activity following years...

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Autores principales: Hayashi, Shinya, Nishiyama, Takayuki, Fujishiro, Takaaki, Hashimoto, Shingo, Kurosaka, Masahiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3318264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/170736
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Sumario:Insufficiency fracture is of the stress fractures and is caused by repetitive stress on fragile bone. Insufficiency fractures of pubic rami are rare occurrences in association with total hip arthroplasty (THA). Postoperative stress fractures occur due to increase of patients activity following years of disability. The physician should consider the possibility of a pelvic insufficiency fracture in patients with RA after THA, if the patients present with groin pain. We demonstrate here the first case of bilateral insufficiency fracture of pubic rami and iliac bone following THA.

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