Atraumatic femoral neck fracture during bisphosphonate treatment: case report and review of the literature

Successive Ipsilateral Atypical Fractures of the Left Femoral Neck and the Diaphysis: Case Report and Review of the Literature

“…Elderly hip fractures until now have been considered as "typical" [5] of fragility arising from osteoporosis but the stress basicervical fractures of the femoral neck, secondary to the prolonged use of bisphosphonates, have been reported since 2002 [24][25][26][27][28] and today this "atypical" variant has been reported in four opportunities one of them bilateral [24] . The basicervical fracture of our case is like one presented by two of these authors [25,26] the others correspond to the classic description of fractures of the femoral neck due to stress [27,28] .…”