The fracture sites of atypical femoral fractures are associated with the weight-bearing lower limb alignment

Bone

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 105-110

  Saita, Yoshitomo ^a   Ishijima, Muneaki ^a   Mogami, Atsuhiko ^b   Kubota, Mitsuaki ^a   Baba, Tomonori ^c   Kaketa, Takefumi ^a   Nagao, Masashi ^d   Sakamoto, Yuko ^d   Sakai, Kensuke ^d   Kato, Rui ^e   Nagura, Nana ^b   Miyagawa, Kei ^f   Wada, Tomoki ^b   Liu, Lizu ^a   Obayashi, Osamu ^b   Shitoto, Katsuo ^c   Nozawa, Masahiko ^d   Kajihara, Hajime ^e   Gen, Hogaku ^f   Kaneko, Kazuo ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY URAYASU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY NERIMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e KOTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Chiba Central Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical femoral fracture (AFF); Bisphosphonate; Femorotibial angle (FTA); Lower limb alignment; Osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL FEMORAL FRACTURE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAPHYSIS; FEMALE; FEMOROTIBIAL ANGLE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR SUBTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE SITE; HUMAN; LOWER LIMB ALIGNMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OSTEOPOROSIS; STRESS FRACTURE; THIGH; VERY ELDERLY; WEIGHT BEARING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; LEG ALIGNMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; BIOMECHANICS; FEMUR; LEG; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DIAPHYSES; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMUR; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MIDDLE AGED; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84902997347     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2014.06.008     Document Type: Article

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