Hiroyuki Tsuchie, Yuji Kasukawa, Koji Nozaka, Hayato Kinoshita, Ken Sasaki, Toshiaki Aizawa, Motoki Mita, Kentaro Ouchi, Yusuke Yuasa, Takanori Miura, Takenori Tomite, Shigeto Maekawa, Hidekazu Abe, Manabu Akagawa, Nobusuke Shibata, Masashi Fujii, Masaaki Takeshima, Jyunichi Inoue, Hikaru Saito, Naohisa Miyakoshi
OBJECTIVES: Atypical femoral fracture (AFF) is an atypical low-energy subtrochanteric and diaphyseal femoral fracture. Even if bone fusion is achieved in patients with AFF, the risk of AFF in the contralateral femur must be considered. This study aimed to investigate the factors affecting complete AFF in the contralateral femur and conservatively treated incomplete AFF. SUBJECT AND METHODS: Radiographs of 111 femurs in 104 AFF cases were examined, and the femurs were classified as follows: 85 contralateral femurs with complete AFF; 18 contralateral femurs with incomplete AFF; 8 femurs with incomplete AFF without surgical treatment...
December 15, 2023: Medical Principles and Practice: International Journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre