Abstract
Presentation of Case A 29-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a pathologic fracture of the right femur. The patient had been well until 31 days earlier, when she crawled under a machine at work to connect a belt and began to have pain in the anterior portion of the right thigh, which became progressively worse. Five days later x-ray films of the thigh, obtained elsewhere, were normal. The pain persisted, and the patient began to walk on crutches. One day before admission an orthopedic consultant made a diagnosis of a “sprain.� On the next morning the patient. . .
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 507-511 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | New England Journal of Medicine |
Volume | 333 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 24 1995 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine(all)