Fresh stress fractures of lumbar pedicles in an adolescent male ballet dancer: case report and literature review.
Stress fracture in the pars interarticularis is a common cause of low back pain in young athletes. Pedicle stress fractures have also been reported in adolescent sport players, and most of them were associated with contralateral spondylolysis. Only a few cases with bilateral pedicle stress fractures have been reported. We report a 14-year-old ballet dancer with fresh bilateral pedicle fractures treated conservatively, together with a review of the literature.
Amari
Rui
R
Department of Orthopedics, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Japan.
Sakai
Toshinori
T
Katoh
Shinsuke
S
Sairyo
Koichi
K
Higashino
Kosaku
K
Tachibana
Keizo
K
Yasui
Natsuo
N
D000293:Adolescent; D003615:Dancing / Q000293:injuries*; D015775:Fractures, Stress / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008297:Male; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis*