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. 2024 Mar 1;24(1):97-100.

Fatigue Fracture of the Femoral Neck

Christos Koutserimpas  1   2 , Nikolaos-Achilleas Arkoudis  3 , Efstathios Chronopoulos  4 , Konstantinos Dretakis  5 , Maria Piagkou  1 , Kalliopi Alpantaki  6
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Fatigue Fracture of the Femoral Neck

Christos Koutserimpas et al. J Musculoskelet Neuronal Interact. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Athletic Injury; Fatigue Fracture Anatomical Distribution; Groin Pain; Insufficiency Fracture; Stress Fracture.

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The authors have no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
(A) Anteroposterior view of the initially obtained X-ray of the left hip evident-ly displays a radiolucent line (arrows) completely traversing the femoral neck. (B) Cor-onal reconstruction of a computer tomography (CT) scan also demonstrates the fracture line crossing the neck of the left femur in its entirety (complete fracture) (arrows). Also note the sclerotic appearance of the bone surrounding the fracture line as evidence of its chronicity (dashed oval). The findings were consistent with a complete, nondisplaced subcapital fracture (Garden type II). (C) Coronal T1-weighted non-fat-saturated MRI images and (D) coronal T2-weighted fat-saturated MRI images display a low signal in-tensity line in the left femoral neck, indicative of a fracture (arrow). Diffuse low-signal intensity changes surrounding the fracture are suggestive of adjacent sclerosis (dashed oval). The absence of increased signal intensity changes (in the T2-weighted fat-saturated MRI images) in the bone marrow surrounding the fracture indicates that this fracture has not occurred recently.
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