Atypical metatarsal fracture in a patient on long term bisphosphonate therapy

A 24 years old female of cushing disease had undergone adrenelectomy. She was put on alendronate and steroid. After six and a half years she developed pathological fracture subtrochanteric femur. The patient was treated with proximal femoral nailing and the fracture united. 2 years later she develop...

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Autores principales: Pradhan, Pavan, Saxena, Vikas, Yadav, Ashok, Mehrotra, Vineet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23162156
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.101048
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author Pradhan, Pavan
Saxena, Vikas
Yadav, Ashok
Mehrotra, Vineet
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description A 24 years old female of cushing disease had undergone adrenelectomy. She was put on alendronate and steroid. After six and a half years she developed pathological fracture subtrochanteric femur. The patient was treated with proximal femoral nailing and the fracture united. 2 years later she developed pain right foot. She was diagnosed as transverse fracture of fifth metatarsal. We report this rare case of atypical metatarsal fracture in a patient on long term bisphosphonate therapy.
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spelling pubmed-34917972012-11-16 Atypical metatarsal fracture in a patient on long term bisphosphonate therapy Pradhan, Pavan Saxena, Vikas Yadav, Ashok Mehrotra, Vineet Indian J Orthop Case Report A 24 years old female of cushing disease had undergone adrenelectomy. She was put on alendronate and steroid. After six and a half years she developed pathological fracture subtrochanteric femur. The patient was treated with proximal femoral nailing and the fracture united. 2 years later she developed pain right foot. She was diagnosed as transverse fracture of fifth metatarsal. We report this rare case of atypical metatarsal fracture in a patient on long term bisphosphonate therapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3491797/ /pubmed/23162156 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.101048 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Orthopaedics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Saxena, Vikas
Yadav, Ashok
Mehrotra, Vineet
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title Atypical metatarsal fracture in a patient on long term bisphosphonate therapy
title_full Atypical metatarsal fracture in a patient on long term bisphosphonate therapy
title_fullStr Atypical metatarsal fracture in a patient on long term bisphosphonate therapy
title_full_unstemmed Atypical metatarsal fracture in a patient on long term bisphosphonate therapy
title_short Atypical metatarsal fracture in a patient on long term bisphosphonate therapy
title_sort atypical metatarsal fracture in a patient on long term bisphosphonate therapy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23162156
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.101048
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