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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1988; 11(1):59-63

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1988.11.1.59

Case Report

Postirradiation Fracture of the Femoral Neck: A Case Report

Ki Hong Choi, Chung Nam Kang, Jin Man Wang, Kwon Jae Roh, Chan Soo Lee
Corresponding author: Chan Soo Lee. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1988. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Postirradiation fracture of pelvis and femoral neck is a rare complication of malignant carcinoma of pelvic organs. According to Leabhart and Bonfiglio(1961), femoal neck fracturare after radiotherapy of pelvic organ carcinoma is about 1.5% among the involved patients and the common sites of primary neoplasms are cervix, uterus, ovary and urethra in order. Acase of 53-year-old female with postirradiation femoral neck fracture was treated at department of orthopedic surgery, Ewha womans University Hospital after 5,000 rad. of radiotherapy for the treatment of urethral malignancy.