Mediale Schenkelhalsfraktur nach arthroskopischer Offsetkorrektur

Background

Hip arthroscopy has been established over the past decade as a safe treatment of many hip diseases. Complications such as fractures of the femoral neck are very rare.

Case report

We report the case of a 54-year-old woman who developed a stress fracture of the femoral neck 5 weeks after arthroscopic femoral neck osteochondroplasty. To our knowledge this is the first reported case of a female patient.

Conclusions

Postoperative groin pain after load increase should the surgeon aware of a possible femoral neck stress fracture. For further diagnosis, physicians should not hesitate to ask for an MRI or a CT scan because conventional radiographs can be normal. Stable stress fractures can be treated conservatively with restricted weight bearing on 2 crutches for 6 weeks.