Potential pathogenic mechanism for stress fractures of the bowed femoral shaft in the elderly: Mechanical analysis by the CT-based finite element method

Injury

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1764-1771

  Oh, Yoto ^a,b   Wakabayashi, Yoshiaki ^a   Kurosa, Yoshiro ^b   Fujita, Koji ^a   Okawa, Atsushi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nagano Prefectural Federation of Agricultural Cooperative for Health and Welfare   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical femoral fracture; Biomechanics; CT FEM; Femoral shaft; Finite element method; Insufficiency fracture; Osteoporosis; Stress fracture

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE BOWING; BONE DENSITY; BONE METABOLISM; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE STRESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BONE); FEMALE; FEMUR SHAFT; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CODING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STRESS FRACTURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSILE STRENGTH; VERY ELDERLY; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURES, STRESS; JAPAN; METABOLISM; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION;

AGED; BONE DENSITY; BONE DENSITY CONSERVATION AGENTS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84907978294     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.08.037     Document Type: Article

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