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.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.