Bilateral Traumatic Fracture of Neck of Femur in a Child: A Case Report

Bilateral femoral neck fractures are rare in the pediatric age group, and only a few cases have been reported following major trauma in children. A 9-year old girl presented with bilateral femoral neck fractures following a motor vehicle accident. The patient was managed with early operative fixatio...

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Autor principal: Dhar, D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4341036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25722824
http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1307.001
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description Bilateral femoral neck fractures are rare in the pediatric age group, and only a few cases have been reported following major trauma in children. A 9-year old girl presented with bilateral femoral neck fractures following a motor vehicle accident. The patient was managed with early operative fixation of the fractures with a successful outcome. This case highlights the importance of awareness of the occurrence of bilateral femoral neck fractures in the polytrauma patients. This case is presented due to its rarity.
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spelling pubmed-43410362015-02-26 Bilateral Traumatic Fracture of Neck of Femur in a Child: A Case Report Dhar, D Malays Orthop J Research Article Bilateral femoral neck fractures are rare in the pediatric age group, and only a few cases have been reported following major trauma in children. A 9-year old girl presented with bilateral femoral neck fractures following a motor vehicle accident. The patient was managed with early operative fixation of the fractures with a successful outcome. This case highlights the importance of awareness of the occurrence of bilateral femoral neck fractures in the polytrauma patients. This case is presented due to its rarity. Malaysian Orthopaedic Association 2013-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4341036/ /pubmed/25722824 http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1307.001 Text en Copyright © 2014, Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Bilateral Traumatic Fracture of Neck of Femur in a Child: A Case Report
title Bilateral Traumatic Fracture of Neck of Femur in a Child: A Case Report
title_full Bilateral Traumatic Fracture of Neck of Femur in a Child: A Case Report
title_fullStr Bilateral Traumatic Fracture of Neck of Femur in a Child: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Traumatic Fracture of Neck of Femur in a Child: A Case Report
title_short Bilateral Traumatic Fracture of Neck of Femur in a Child: A Case Report
title_sort bilateral traumatic fracture of neck of femur in a child: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4341036/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.1307.001
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