Case Report
Surgical Treatment of Osteopetrosis-Related Femoral Fractures: Two Case Reports and Literature Review
Table 1
Osteopetrotic femur fractures were treated surgically: the published cases (2008–2013).
| Article | Age(s) | Gender(s) | Femur localization | Surgical treatment | Complication | Follow-up period |
| Kumbaraci et al. [17] | 21 years old | Female | Bilateral subtrochanteric | Intramedullary nail (PFNA) | None | 12 months |
| Cadosch et al. [20] | 37 years old | Male | Right proximal | Intramedullary nail | None | 6 months |
| Kulkarni et al. [21] | 22 years old | Male | Left shaft | Plate-screw | Unspecified | Unspecified | 47 years old | Male | Right subtrochanteric | Plate-screw | Unspecified | Unspecified |
| Huang et al. [22] | 23 years old | Female | Bilateral shaft | Bilateral plate-screw | None | Unspecified |
| Kumar et al. [23] | 45 years old | Male | Bilateral subtrochanteric | Dynamic Hip Screw | None | 11 months |
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Golden and Rodriguez [7] | 27 years old | Male | Bilateral subtrochanteric | Dynamic Condylar Screw | None | 3 years |
| Amit et al. [24] | 35 years old | Female | Right subtrochanteric | Locking plate | Contralateral stress fracture | 23 weeks | 38 years old | Female | Left subtrochanteric | Locking plate | None | 21 weeks |
| Sen et al. [25] | Mean 26 | 4 male/1 female | 4 subtrochanteric (one of them bilateral) | Locking plate | None | 3 months |
| Bhargava et al. [11] | 48 years old | Female | Bilateral shaft | Locking plate | Bilateral delayed union | 3 years |
| Gandhi et al. [26] | 58 years old | Male | Right neck | Hemiarthroplasty | None | 6 months |
| Sonohata et al. [6] | 61 years old | Female | Right subtrochanteric | Hemiarthroplasty | None | 2 years |
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