A Case Report of Abnormal Fracture Healing as Detected With High-Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography.

TLDR: The authors would like to thank Liesbeth Jutten and Margareth Winants from the Trial Bureau of the Department of Orthopedics for their efforts during this study.

About: This article is published in Journal of Clinical Densitometry.The article was published on 2017-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1 citations till now.

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Fig. 1. High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography-derived bone parameters of the presented case of abnormal fracture healing (black circles) compared to the other subjects of the study cohort (white squares, N = 14). In the case patient, the trabecular density is seen to decrease early in the healing process, persisting up to 115 wk (A), along with the trabecular number (B). In contrast to trabecular density, cortical density during fracture healing follows a normal pattern (C), which explains the restored compression stiffness (D). Data are presented as median with interquartile range. Scans were performed (on average) at 1, 3, 6, 12, and 115 wk post fracture.

Fig. 2. Representative slices from the presented case showing abnormal fracture healing, as compared to a patient representative of the observed healing pattern in the study group. After 115 wk, the trabecular structure is resorbed to a greater extent in the affected patient. The contrast between the region proximal and distal from the fracture line can be observed in particular in the segmented 3D reconstructions. 3D, 3-dimensional.

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