Treatment of Atypical Fracture of the Ulnar Diaphysis by Open Reduction and Internal Fixation with Teriparatide

Table 1

Reports of atypical ulnar fractures.

Authors	Age (y)	Sex	Affected side	Cause/trauma	Bisphosphonate history	Treatment	Outcome	Remarks
Moon et al. (2013)	76	F	Left	NHT	Alendronate	Internal fixation	Union
	78	F	Left	NHT	Alendronate	Conservative	Some healing at 3 m
Stathopoulos et al. [3]	76	F	Right	NHT	Zoledronate	Internal fixation	Union
Tang and Kumar [11]	7	F	Right	NHT	Alendronate	Conservative	Nonunion
Bjørgul and Reigstad [5]	83	F	Left	Crutch use	Alendronate	Internal fixation with bone graft	Union
Ang et al. [6]	84	M	Bilateral	Walking frame use	Alendronate	Conservative	NS
Chiang et al. [9]	77	F	Right	Walking cane use	Alendronate	Internal fixation	Nonunion, managed with bone graft and refixation
Osada et al. [7]	85	F	Left	Light fall	Alendronate	Internal fixation with bone graft	Union
Erdem et al. [10]	62	F	Right	Walking cane use	Alendronate	Conservative	Nonunion
Shimada et al. [12]	79	F	Right	NHT	Alendronate	Internal fixation with bone graft	Union	Teriparatide+LIPUS
	89	F	Left	Lightly hit elbow	Risedronate	Internal fixation with bone graft	Union	Teriparatide+LIPUS
Yam and Kwek [13]	89	F	Bilateral	Walking frame use and fall	Alendronate	Conservative	Non-union
Oh et al. [11]	72	F	Left	Light fall	Alendronate	Internal fixation	Union
Present study	78	F	Left	Hoe use and fall	Alendronate	Internal fixation	Nonunion, managed with bone graft and refixation	Teriparatide+LIPUS

LIPUS: low-intensity pulsed ultrasound; NHT: no history of trauma; NS: not stated.