Bilateral Atypical Femoral Fractures in a Patient with Multiple Myeloma Treated with Intravenous Bisphosphonate Therapy

Table 1

Summary of case reports on atypical fractures in patients with multiple myeloma treated with bisphosphonates therapy.

Author and year	Age (yr)	Sex	Fracture side	Duration of treatment with bisphosphonates (mo)	Number of bisphosphonate doses
Grasko et al., 2009 [15]	66	M	L	96	88 (47 pamidronate, 41 zoledronate)
Puhaindran et al., 2011 [16]	64	F	R	103	58 (all pamidronate)
Chang et al., 2012 [17]	N/A	N/A	Bilateral	N/A	N/A (pamidronate and/or zoledronate)
	N/A	N/A	Bilateral	N/A	N/A (pamidronate and/or zoledronate)
Present case (same patient)	53	F	R	94	78 (70 incadronate, 8 zoledronate)
	56	F	L	130	90 (70 incadronate, 20 zoledronate)

M: male; F: female; R: right; L: left; N/A: not available.