title: Recurrent femur neck fracture and response to bisphosphonates in polyostotic fibrous dysplasia.
abstract: Fibrous dysplasia is an uncommon metabolic bone disease. Medical management is often not rewarding. Index patient, a 15-year-old girl with history of recurrent fractures on trivial trauma was treated with pamidronate. She showed good outcome with symptomatic improvement and no new fractures over 3 year duration of follow up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology, PGIMER, Chandigarh 160012, India.
authors.forename: Ashu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rastogi
authors.forename: Sanjay Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Bhadada
authors.forename: Anil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhansali
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004164:Diphosphonates / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D005265:Femoral Neck Fractures / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D005359:Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D000077268:Pamidronate
chemical_list: D050071:Bone Density Conservation Agents; D004164:Diphosphonates; D000077268:Pamidronate