• DOI:10.1302/0301-620X.89B3.18146
Corpus ID: 19294119

Subtrochanteric insufficiency fractures in patients on alendronate therapy: a caution.

@article{Goh2007SubtrochantericIF,
  title={Subtrochanteric insufficiency fractures in patients on alendronate therapy: a caution.},
  author={S. Goh and K. Y. Yang and J. Koh and M. K. Wong and S. Chua and D. Chua and T. Howe},
  journal={The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume},
  year={2007},
  volume={89 3},
  pages={
          349-53
        }
}

• S. Goh, K. Y. Yang, +4 authors T. Howe
• Published 2007
• Medicine
• The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume

We carried out a retrospective review over ten months of patients who had presented with a low-energy subtrochanteric fracture. We identified 13 women of whom nine were on long-term alendronate therapy and four were not. The patients treated with alendronate were younger, with a mean age of 66.9 years (55 to 82) vs 80.3 years (64 to 92) and were more socially active. The fractures sustained by the patients in the alendronate group were mainly at the femoral metaphyseal-diaphyseal junction and… Expand

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