[Fatigue fracture of the tibia following osteosynthesis. An interesting case].
Stress-fractures most often affect healthy bones, in the majority of cases the tibia. We report a case of a young man who had a stress-fracture 18 months after osteosynthesis of a lower leg-fracture. Under biomechanical aspects an oscillation-fracture is mostly probable because the angle of the fracture is exactly 45 degrees to the longitudinal axis of the tibia.
Knauf
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Chirurgische Klinik der RWTH Aachen.
Paar
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Engelhardt
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D000328:Adult; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D015775:Fractures, Stress / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014102:Torsion Abnormality