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Subcapital stress fracture of the femoral neck after total knee arthroplasty. 1994

D Palance Martin, and J Albareda, and F Seral

Department of Surgery, University Clinic Lozano Blesa, University of Zaragoza, Faculty of Medicine, Spain.

Although total knee arthroplasty is a valuable surgical technique, complications and problems do occur. Associated stress fracture of the femoral neck is relatively rare and we have only found eleven relevant reports. In this paper we present a case of bilateral total knee arthroplasty where three months after the second replacement, and without significant injury, the patient suffered a femoral neck fracture in the limb which had received the first new knee joint.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007720	Knee Prosthesis	Replacement for a knee joint.	Knee Prostheses,Prostheses, Knee,Prosthesis, Knee
D011183	Postoperative Complications	Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.	Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D005260	Female		Females
D005265	Femoral Neck Fractures	Fractures of the short, constricted portion of the thigh bone between the femur head and the trochanters. It excludes intertrochanteric fractures which are HIP FRACTURES.	Femur Neck Fractures,Femoral Neck Fracture,Femur Neck Fracture
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368	Aged	A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available.	Elderly
D015775	Fractures, Stress	Fractures due to the strain caused by repetitive exercise. They are thought to arise from a combination of MUSCLE FATIGUE and bone failure, and occur in situations where BONE REMODELING predominates over repair. The most common sites of stress fractures are the METATARSUS; FIBULA; TIBIA; and FEMORAL NECK.	Fatigue Fractures,Fractures, Fatigue,Fractures, March,Stress Fractures,Bone Stress Reaction,Insufficiency Fractures,Micro Fractures,Microfractures,Stress Reaction, Bone,Bone Stress Reactions,Fatigue Fracture,Fracture, Fatigue,Fracture, Insufficiency,Fracture, March,Fracture, Micro,Fracture, Stress,Fractures, Micro,Insufficiency Fracture,March Fracture,March Fractures,Micro Fracture,Microfracture,Stress Fracture