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SUBMITTER: Tan J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6663157 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tan Juan J Sano Hiroshige H Poole Kenneth K
BMJ case reports 20190723 7
A 35-year-old man with juvenile idiopathic arthritis since childhood presented with bilateral atypical tibial fractures, followed by a later, single atypical fracture of the femur. The fractures were associated with 6 years of oral alendronate treatment immediately followed by subcutaneous denosumab therapy and later teriparatide therapy for osteoporosis. Atypical fractures are known to occur in the femur following bisphosphonate therapy; however, there are only a few documented cases of atypica ...[more]