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Fresh stress fractures of lumbar pedicles in an adolescent male ballet dancer: Case report and literature review.

Amari R, Sakai T, Katoh S, Sairyo K, Higashino K, Tachibana K, Yasui N

Department of Orthopedics, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan.

Stress fracture in the pars interarticularis is a common cause of low back pain in young athletes. Pedicle stress fractures have also been reported in adolescent sport players, and most of them were associated with contralateral spondylolysis. Only a few cases with bilateral pedicle stress fractures have been reported. We report a 14-year-old ballet dancer with fresh bilateral pedicle fractures treated conservatively, together with a review of the literature.

Published 8 July 2008 in Arch Orthop Trauma Surg.
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