Longitudinal stress fracture of the femur: A rare presentation

We present the case of an 80 year old woman with hip pain, caused by a longitudinal femoral insufficiency stress fracture, depicted with radiographs, CT and MR. This type of fracture is very rare, with only a few cases reported. We conducted a literature review and compared the findings with the pre...

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Autores principales: Bilreiro, Carlos, Bahia, Carla, Castro, Miguel Oliveira e
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4811848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27069976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejro.2016.01.003
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description We present the case of an 80 year old woman with hip pain, caused by a longitudinal femoral insufficiency stress fracture, depicted with radiographs, CT and MR. This type of fracture is very rare, with only a few cases reported. We conducted a literature review and compared the findings with the present case.
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spelling pubmed-48118482016-04-11 Longitudinal stress fracture of the femur: A rare presentation Bilreiro, Carlos Bahia, Carla Castro, Miguel Oliveira e Eur J Radiol Open Article We present the case of an 80 year old woman with hip pain, caused by a longitudinal femoral insufficiency stress fracture, depicted with radiographs, CT and MR. This type of fracture is very rare, with only a few cases reported. We conducted a literature review and compared the findings with the present case. Elsevier 2016-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4811848/ /pubmed/27069976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejro.2016.01.003 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_short Longitudinal stress fracture of the femur: A rare presentation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4811848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27069976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejro.2016.01.003
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