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Postpartum sacral stress fracture: a case report
BACKGROUND: Stress fractures are classified as insufficiency and fatigue fractures. Insufficiency fractures occur when normal stresses are placed on bone with decreased mineralization and elastic resistance; whereas fatigue fractures occur when abnormal forces are applied to normal bone. CASE PRESEN...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4852431/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27138281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-016-0873-4 |
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author | Hilal, Nadeen Nassar, Anwar H. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Stress fractures are classified as insufficiency and fatigue fractures. Insufficiency fractures occur when normal stresses are placed on bone with decreased mineralization and elastic resistance; whereas fatigue fractures occur when abnormal forces are applied to normal bone. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of postpartum bilateral sacral fracture in the absence of documented osteoporosis in a 30 year old Lebanese female, thus satisfying the classification of fatigue fractures. Clinical presentation was mainly low back pain, pelvic pain, and abnormal gait. CONCLUSIONS: This case stresses the importance of including sacral fractures in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with similar symptoms during pregnancy or the postpartum period. |
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spelling | pubmed-48524312016-05-03 Postpartum sacral stress fracture: a case report Hilal, Nadeen Nassar, Anwar H. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Case Report BACKGROUND: Stress fractures are classified as insufficiency and fatigue fractures. Insufficiency fractures occur when normal stresses are placed on bone with decreased mineralization and elastic resistance; whereas fatigue fractures occur when abnormal forces are applied to normal bone. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of postpartum bilateral sacral fracture in the absence of documented osteoporosis in a 30 year old Lebanese female, thus satisfying the classification of fatigue fractures. Clinical presentation was mainly low back pain, pelvic pain, and abnormal gait. CONCLUSIONS: This case stresses the importance of including sacral fractures in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with similar symptoms during pregnancy or the postpartum period. BioMed Central 2016-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4852431/ /pubmed/27138281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-016-0873-4 Text en © Hilal and Nassar. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Hilal, Nadeen Nassar, Anwar H. Postpartum sacral stress fracture: a case report |
title | Postpartum sacral stress fracture: a case report |
title_full | Postpartum sacral stress fracture: a case report |
title_fullStr | Postpartum sacral stress fracture: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Postpartum sacral stress fracture: a case report |
title_short | Postpartum sacral stress fracture: a case report |
title_sort | postpartum sacral stress fracture: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4852431/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27138281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-016-0873-4 |
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