A case of a pathological fracture in the femoral neck due to chondroblastoma: 10-year follow-up without recurrence after curettage and bone grafting
Akihiro Yamashita, Yu Takeda, Takuya Nakai, Shuya Matsumoto, Takayuki Kawaguchi, Shintaro Onishi, Toshiya Tachibana, Shigeo Fukunishi · 2026
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Akihiro Yamashita and colleagues report in 2026 a young woman whose hip bone broke through a benign cartilage tumor, then healed for good. She was nineteen when a minor injury snapped her femoral neck, already weakened by a large chondroblastoma reaching from the ball of the hip into the neck. Such tumors can return or kill the hip ball when surgeons scrape them out.
Her first surgery fixed the fracture with hardware, which stayed in place for the second operation. Surgeons then opened a window at the head and neck junction, scraped the tumor clean, and packed the space with graft bone. Ten years on, she shows no tumor return and no death of the hip ball. Careful scraping can give lasting control even after a fracture.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Akihiro Yamashita, Yu Takeda, Takuya Nakai, Shuya Matsumoto, Takayuki Kawaguchi, Shintaro Onishi, Toshiya Tachibana, Shigeo Fukunishi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |