title: Femoral neck fracture in a child with autosomal dominant osteopetrosis.
abstract: A child with autosomal dominant osteopetrosis had successful treatment of a femoral neck fracture by internal fixation. Drilling the pins into the femoral neck was extremely difficult. The histopathology in osteopetrotic bone provides a probable explanation for the technical difficulty seen in this case.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations / Q000235:genetics*; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D005265:Femoral Neck Fractures / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010022:Osteopetrosis / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*