Background and purpose - Patients with osteoporosis who present with an acute onset of back pain often have multiple fractures on plain radiographs. Differentiation of an acute osteoporotic vertebral fracture (AOVF) from previous fractures is difficult. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of concomitant AOVFs and previous OVFs in patients with symptomatic AOVFs, and to identi...

Osteoporosis (OP); It is a metabolic bone disease characterized by decreased mineral density (BMD) and strength, increased fragility fracture risk, deterioration in the microarchitecture of tissue. The most important cause morbidity mortality OP are fractures such as osteoporotic hip fractures. Prevention treatment osteoporosis can prevent comorbidities. In this paper, available information abo...

PURPOSE To evaluate postoperative walking status of elderly patients with osteoporotic pubic rami fractures with or without posterior pelvic ring fractures. METHODS 33 women and 4 men aged 66 to 95 (mean, 85) years presented with osteoporotic pubic rami fractures after a fall. 22 (59%) of the patients had additional posterior pelvic ring fractures (9 had lateral compression type-II fractures ...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. PURPOSE To estimate the usefulness of bone scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of new fracture in osteoporotic vertebral fractures. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE The diagnosis of new fractrure in osteoporotic vertebral fractures requires simple X-ray and supplementary studies. METHODS We analyzed 87 vertebrae in 44 patients, who diagnosed...

Osteoporotic fractures in elderly women are mainly due to postmenopausal bone loss but can sometimes be caused by a disabling haematological disease. We describe an 84-year-old woman suffering from multiple osteoporotic fractures as a manifestation of mast cell leukaemia. Mast cell leukaemia is a rare form of systemic mastocytosis with a poor prognosis and very few therapeutic options. Osteopor...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Pedicle involvement on MR imaging has been considered specific for malignancy. However, we also noted the findings in many patients with osteoporosis and hypothesized that it is not specific for malignant lesions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of pedicle involvement in painful osteoporotic compression fractures and to determine whether the sign is s...

Background: The purpose of this retrospective study was to analyze the long-term results of revision ORIF, jointcontracture release, and autogenous bone-grafting in the treatment of distal humerus frac-ture nonunions in older agedpatients with poor bone quality or bone loss who would have been candidates for total elbow arthroplasty.Methods: Seven patients (average age at inde...

BACKGROUND We developed a methodology using vital statistics to estimate the impact of osteoporotic fractures on the mortality of an entire population, and applied it to France for the period 2000-2004. METHODS Current definitions of osteoporotic fractures were reviewed and their components identified. We used the International Classification of Diseases with national vital statistics data fo...

PURPOSE To study the prevalence of osteoarthritis, osteoporotic vertebral fractures, and spondylolisthesis among elderly residents of a Japanese village and to examine the correlation between radiographic evidence of abnormality and lower back pain. METHODS 205 men (mean age, 70.7 years) and 323 women (mean age, 70.5 years) in a Japanese village participated in this cross-sectional study. Pla...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to whether orthopedic and traumatology specialists are more aware of medical treatment of osteoporotic fractures in the last decade. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between January 2002 and December 2011, 844 patients (560 females, 284 males; mean age: 78 years; range 60 to 94 years) who suffered from surgical fractures due to low-energy trauma and received no osteoporotic tre...