TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Spontaneous hip fractures, 44/872 in a prospective study
JO  - Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica
A1  - Parker, M. J.
A1  - Twemlow, T. R.
SP  - 325
EP  - 326
VL  - 68
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0001-6470
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -