Xu-Yi Tan, Ting Lei, Guan-Bao Wu, Hai-En Luo, Gang Huang, Can-Yu He, Min Lu, Peng-Fei Lei
BACKGROUND: The incidence of insufficiency fracture (IF) at femoral neck is low, accounting for about 5% of all insufficiency fractures, and IF at bilateral femoral neck is less common with more occurrence in athlete or serviceman. With the aging of populations, more cases of bilateral femoral neck IF have occurred recently, while the standard clinical treatment still remains lacking due to the complexity of these patients. CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old male patient complained pain in his bilateral hip, with no history of trauma, glucocorticoid hormone consumption or radiotherapy, and imaging examination revealed fracture nonunion and shortening in his left femoral neck, and double fracture line on the right femoral neck...
February 14, 2020: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders