Femoral stress fractures associated with long-term bisphosphonate treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent studies have described unique clinical and radiographic characteristics of femoral stress fractures or low-energy fractures associated with long-term bisphosphonate therapy. However, it is unclear whether these fractures require subsequent surgery after the initial treatment.

Questions/purposes

We performed a cohort analysis of bisphosphonate-associated femoral stress fractures to (1) confirm the unique clinical and radiographic findings compared with existing literature, (2) determine whether any patients with completed fractures had no preexisting transverse stress fracture lines, (3) assess the need for additional surgical procedures, and (4) determine whether the hospital length of stay (LOS) differed for patients with prophylactic fixation of stress fr

SUBMITTER: Ward WG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3270181 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature