title: Bilateral asynchronous humeral shaft fractures in a patient with autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type II (Albers-Schonberg disease).
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
authors.forename: Yongyot
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jeerathanyasakun
authors.forename: Pisit
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sukswai
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D006801:Humans; D006810:Humeral Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D010022:Osteopetrosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D011859:Radiography