title: Spontaneous fractures of the neck of the femur occurring in pregnancy in the absence of pregnancy osteoporosis.
abstract: Case report on a patient suffering from spontaneous fractures of the neck of the femur which occured during her first pregnancy at the age of 23 in the left leg and during another pregnancy seven years later in the right leg. Both fractures occured during the eighth month of pregnancy. Special attention is drawn to the fact that local or general osteoporosis which, according to literature, should be obligatory for the occurence of spontaneous necrosis of the femoral head and/or fractures of the neck of the femur, could be demonstrated neither during the first nor the second pregnancy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D005265:Femoral Neck Fractures / Q000209:etiology*; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography