Abstracts tagged "fractures and radiography"

Abstract Number: 333 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Atypical Femoral Fracture in Patients of a Rheumatology Service: Clinical, Radiographic and Bone Histomorphometric Data
Mariana O Perez¹, Diogo S Domiciano¹, Vanda Jorgetti² and Rosa M R Pereira¹, ¹Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ²Nephrology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Atypical femoral fractures (AFF) are low energy femoral fractures with a specific radiographic pattern and subtrochanteric / diaphyseal localization that have been related to…