Bilateral asynchronous humeral shaft fractures in a patient with autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II (Albers-Schonberg disease).
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ABSTRACT
Osteopetrosis is a rare metabolic disease which presents with fragile osteosclerotic bone. A thirteen-year-old girl with an underlying autosomal dominant osteopetrosis (ADO) type II who sustained a left oblique humeral shaft fracture after trivial trauma is presented. Radiographic results showed many characteristic features of osteopetrosis, including incomplete remodeling of a previous fracture of the contralateral humeral shaft. The authors obtained good healing and alignment of the left humeral shaft fracture by sugar tong slab.
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Main subject:
Osteopetrosis
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Female
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Humans
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Adolescent
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Genes, Dominant
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Humeral Fractures
Language:
English
Year:
2003
Type:
Article
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