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ArticleClinical cases in mineral and bone metabolism : the official journal of the Italian Society of Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism, and Skeletal Diseases2014

A case of bilateral stress fractures in an old woman: three years of pain.

Michelangelo Scaglione, Luca Fabbri, Dario Dell'Omo, Francesco Gambini, Federica Di Rollo, Giulio Guido

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Article in Clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolism : the official journal of the Italian Society of Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism, and Skeletal Diseases, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michelangelo ScaglioneOrthopaedic Clinic, Unit II of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Luca FabbriOrthopaedic Clinic, Unit II of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Dario Dell'OmoOrthopaedic Clinic, Unit II of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Francesco GambiniOrthopaedic Clinic, Unit II of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Federica Di RolloOrthopaedic Clinic, Unit II of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Giulio GuidoOrthopaedic Clinic, Unit II of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
University of Pisa · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In elderly patients frequent episodes of joint pain of lower limbs exacerbated by stress and resistant to treatment occur frequently. This paper reports a case of a long lasting bilateral atraumatic knee pain with a final diagnosis of bilateral stress fractures of proximal tibia in osteoporotic postmenopausal woman. The distinctive trait of this case is that the fracture has set in bilaterally and associated with an isthmic L4-L5 spondylolisthesis in a patient afflicted by a decline in mood. This particular clinical picture has delayed the diagnosis and the suitable treatment for 3 years. Therapy for this type of patients must aim in the acute phase at pain relief and only after must be settled in a long term antiosteoporotic therapy. We choose clodronate acyd for pain relief and after strontium ranelate for osteoporosis prevention.

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clodronic acidkneesosteoporosisspondilolistesysstress fracture

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PMCPMC4172188
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