A Non-Traumatic Avulsion Fracture of the Lesser Trochanter: Other Diagnosis Not to Be Missed

Serdar Koçer; Simone Grácio; Pierre Molnar; Léa Baumgartner

doi:10.1024/1661-8157/a003614

A Non-Traumatic Avulsion Fracture of the Lesser Trochanter: Other Diagnosis Not to Be Missed

Praxis (Bern 1994). 2021 Feb;110(2):105-107. doi: 10.1024/1661-8157/a003614.

Authors

Serdar Koçer¹, Simone Grácio¹, Pierre Molnar¹, Léa Baumgartner¹

Affiliation

¹ Centre de Rééducation, Hôpital du Jura, site de Porrentruy, Switzerland.

PMID: 33530775
DOI: 10.1024/1661-8157/a003614

Abstract

In adults, an isolated non-traumatic fracture of the lesser trochanter should arouse strong suspicion of an underlying malignant pathology. In this article, we present the case of a 55-year-old male patient who presented with a non-traumatic isolated fracture of the lesser trochanter secondary to a delayed diagnosis of metastases of bronchial carcinoma.

Keywords: Bronchialkarzinom; Lesser trochanter; Trochanter minor; bronchial carcinoma; pathological fracture; pathologische Fraktur.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Femur
Fractures, Avulsion*
Hip Fractures* / diagnostic imaging
Hip Fractures* / surgery
Humans
Male
Middle Aged