A unique case of nontraumatic femoral neck fracture following epilepsia partialis continua☆

People with epilepsy are more accident prone than the non-epilepsy population. Bone fractures are most often due to seizure-related falls. However, seizures themselves, in particular generalized tonic-clonic seizures, may also cause fractures, e.g. of the thoracic spine. Here, I present a man who developed focal epilepsy following a subarachnoidal hemorrhage. During a focal motor seizure with left-sided convulsions and preserved consciousness that lasted 2 hrs, he sustained a femoral neck fracture. In persons with low mineral density, as in this case, contractions associated with simple focal motor seizures may be sufficient to give rise to such a severe complication.