Bilateral Asynchronous Humeral Shaft Fractures in a Patient with Autosomal Dominant Osteopetrosis Type II (Aibers-Schonberg Disease)

YONGYOT JEERATHANYA8AKUN, MD*, PI8IT 8UK8WA I, MD*,

Affiliation : *Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.

AbstractOsteopetrosis is a rare metabolic disease which presents with fragile osteosclerotic bone. A thirteen-year-old girl with an underlying autosomal dominant osteopetrosis (ADO) type II who sustained a left oblique humeral shaft fracture after trivial trauma is presented. Radiographic results showed many characteristic features of osteopetrosis, including incomplete remodeling of a previous fracture of the contralateral humeral shaft. The authors obtained good healing and alignment of the left humeral shaft fracture by sugar tong slab.

Keywords : Osteopetrosis, Albers-Schonberg Disease, Humeral Shaft Fracture

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