Spontaneous bilateral femoral neck fractures in a young male adult: a case report and literature review

摘要

BackgroundFemoral neck fractures in the elderly are among the most commonly experienced orthopedic trauma, but the incidence in the young population is rare. Hip fractures among young people are usually seen in instances of high-energy trauma, single episodes of high-level stress, or repetitive microinjury leading to stress fractures, such as those as commonly observed in the military population and in persons in metabolically altered bone states [1,2,3,4]. Non-traumatic bilateral femoral neck fractures are very rare. Only a few cases of bilateral femoral neck fractures secondary to transient osteoporosis of the hip in postpartum patients have also been described in the literature [5, 6].We recently treated a young male adult who developed simultaneous bilateral femoral neck fractures without an antecedent trauma.