Fatigue fracture ossa pubes due to obesity. Report of a case.
A 60-year-old menopausal woman, who was in otherwise good health, save for morbid obesity, developed fatigue fractures of her ossa pubes, bilaterally, superiority and inferiorly. This type of pathologic fracture seems not to have been reported previously.
D005221:Fatigue / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications*; D011630:Pubic Bone / Q000293:injuries*