1. Occult acetabulum fracture. A case report
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George Mouzopoulos, Mathaios Tzurbakis, Dimitrios Mouzopoulos, Ioannis Georgilas, and Nikolaos G. Lasanianos
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Radiography ,Osteoporosis ,Insufficiency fracture ,Humans ,Medicine ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Fractures, Closed ,Ultrasonography ,Stress fractures ,Groin ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Acetabulum ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,medicine.disease ,Occult ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Emergency Medicine ,Radiology ,Emergency Service, Hospital ,business - Abstract
Acetabular fractures that are radiographically occult are associated with insufficiency fractures, stress fractures, and fractures secondary to steroid-induced osteoporosis, usually affecting older patients after low-energy trauma. Occult acetabulum fractures in young patients are extremely rare. We discuss herein a case of an occult acetabulum fracture after high-energy trauma, in a young patient. This case illustrates the need for further diagnostic studies such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or bone scanning when, despite negative radiographic findings, groin pain is persistent.
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- 2008
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