@article{ref1,
title="Spontaneous hip fractures, 44/872 in a prospective study",
journal="Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica",
year="1997",
author="Parker, M. J. and Twemlow, T. R.",
volume="68",
number="4",
pages="325-326",
abstract="We assessed the relationship between the onset of pain and the fall in a consecutive series of 1,212 patients admitted to a single hospital with an acute hip fracture. 915 patients could be evaluated. The overall incidence of spontaneous fractures was 7%, but this fell to 5% if pathological fractures were excluded. The incidence of fractures without a fall was 6%. 2% of patients gave a history of pain for up to 8 weeks before the fall and only 2 of the patients gave a history of acute pain in the hip, causing them to fall. Physicians should be aware that a spontaneous hip fracture can occur without any history of trauma and such fractures are likely to be pathological or intracapsular.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-6470",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}