Atraumatic diplaced bilateral femoral neck fracture in a patient with hypophosphatemic rickets in postpartum period: A missed diagnosis

•There are very few cases reported in the literature about simultaneous bilateral femoral neck fracture.•Simultaneous bilateral femoral neck fractures are seen more frequently in elderly patients because of the reduction of bone quality and osteoporosis.•For patients with bone metabolic diseases and...

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Main Authors: Uzun, Erdal, Günay, Ali Eray, Kızkapan, Turan Bilge, Mutlu, Mahmut
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5079357/
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spelling pubmed-50793572016-11-03 Atraumatic diplaced bilateral femoral neck fracture in a patient with hypophosphatemic rickets in postpartum period: A missed diagnosis Uzun, Erdal Günay, Ali Eray Kızkapan, Turan Bilge Mutlu, Mahmut Case Report •There are very few cases reported in the literature about simultaneous bilateral femoral neck fracture.•Simultaneous bilateral femoral neck fractures are seen more frequently in elderly patients because of the reduction of bone quality and osteoporosis.•For patients with bone metabolic diseases and/or the patients in pregnancy and postpartum period, preventive measures should be increased to reduce the risk of pathologic fracture.•Admitting to the hospital we must be more careful about detecting fractures in these patients. Elsevier 2016-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5079357/ /pubmed/27771603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.10.028 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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author Uzun, Erdal
Günay, Ali Eray
Kızkapan, Turan Bilge
Mutlu, Mahmut
spellingShingle Uzun, Erdal
Günay, Ali Eray
Kızkapan, Turan Bilge
Mutlu, Mahmut
Atraumatic diplaced bilateral femoral neck fracture in a patient with hypophosphatemic rickets in postpartum period: A missed diagnosis
author_facet Uzun, Erdal
Günay, Ali Eray
Kızkapan, Turan Bilge
Mutlu, Mahmut
author_sort Uzun, Erdal
title Atraumatic diplaced bilateral femoral neck fracture in a patient with hypophosphatemic rickets in postpartum period: A missed diagnosis
title_short Atraumatic diplaced bilateral femoral neck fracture in a patient with hypophosphatemic rickets in postpartum period: A missed diagnosis
title_full Atraumatic diplaced bilateral femoral neck fracture in a patient with hypophosphatemic rickets in postpartum period: A missed diagnosis
title_fullStr Atraumatic diplaced bilateral femoral neck fracture in a patient with hypophosphatemic rickets in postpartum period: A missed diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Atraumatic diplaced bilateral femoral neck fracture in a patient with hypophosphatemic rickets in postpartum period: A missed diagnosis
title_sort atraumatic diplaced bilateral femoral neck fracture in a patient with hypophosphatemic rickets in postpartum period: a missed diagnosis
description •There are very few cases reported in the literature about simultaneous bilateral femoral neck fracture.•Simultaneous bilateral femoral neck fractures are seen more frequently in elderly patients because of the reduction of bone quality and osteoporosis.•For patients with bone metabolic diseases and/or the patients in pregnancy and postpartum period, preventive measures should be increased to reduce the risk of pathologic fracture.•Admitting to the hospital we must be more careful about detecting fractures in these patients.
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2016
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5079357/
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