A stress fracture of the base of the acromion: a case report

BACKGROUND: Stress fractures of the base of the acromion are rare and tend to progress well when conservatively treated. The need for surgery due to this type of fracture has only been reported in two case reports. CASE PRESENTATION: A 39-year-old patient, manual laborer, with a stress fracture at t...

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Autores principales: Malavolta, Eduardo Angeli, Assunção, Jorge Henrique, Sunada, Edwin Eiji, Gracitelli, Mauro Emilio Conforto, Ferreira Neto, Arnaldo Amado
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25214395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-15-302
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author Malavolta, Eduardo Angeli
Assunção, Jorge Henrique
Sunada, Edwin Eiji
Gracitelli, Mauro Emilio Conforto
Ferreira Neto, Arnaldo Amado
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description BACKGROUND: Stress fractures of the base of the acromion are rare and tend to progress well when conservatively treated. The need for surgery due to this type of fracture has only been reported in two case reports. CASE PRESENTATION: A 39-year-old patient, manual laborer, with a stress fracture at the base of the acromion that required surgical treatment due to persistent symptoms and consolidation failure. CONCLUSION: We described a new mechanism of injury for stress fractures of the base of the acromion. After the failure of conservative treatment, the patient exhibited good results with osteosynthesis with a plate and screws, with no need for a bone graft. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2474-15-302) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-41756352014-09-27 A stress fracture of the base of the acromion: a case report Malavolta, Eduardo Angeli Assunção, Jorge Henrique Sunada, Edwin Eiji Gracitelli, Mauro Emilio Conforto Ferreira Neto, Arnaldo Amado BMC Musculoskelet Disord Case Report BACKGROUND: Stress fractures of the base of the acromion are rare and tend to progress well when conservatively treated. The need for surgery due to this type of fracture has only been reported in two case reports. CASE PRESENTATION: A 39-year-old patient, manual laborer, with a stress fracture at the base of the acromion that required surgical treatment due to persistent symptoms and consolidation failure. CONCLUSION: We described a new mechanism of injury for stress fractures of the base of the acromion. After the failure of conservative treatment, the patient exhibited good results with osteosynthesis with a plate and screws, with no need for a bone graft. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2474-15-302) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2014-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4175635/ /pubmed/25214395 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-15-302 Text en © Malavolta et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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Malavolta, Eduardo Angeli
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Sunada, Edwin Eiji
Gracitelli, Mauro Emilio Conforto
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title A stress fracture of the base of the acromion: a case report
title_full A stress fracture of the base of the acromion: a case report
title_fullStr A stress fracture of the base of the acromion: a case report
title_full_unstemmed A stress fracture of the base of the acromion: a case report
title_short A stress fracture of the base of the acromion: a case report
title_sort stress fracture of the base of the acromion: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25214395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-15-302
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