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Stress fracture of the second metacarpal bone

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Abstract

Stress fractures are usually encountered in athletes; however, only eight such cases involving the metacarpal bones have been reported in the English literature. We report on the rare case of a 15-year-old female tennis player with a stress fracture of the second metacarpal bone.

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  1. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Akita University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Hondo, 010-8543, Akita, Japan

    Andrey Bespalchuk, Kyoji Okada, Shu Takahashi, Yoichi Shimada & Eiji Itoi

  2. Orthopedic Department, Belarusian State Medical University, 83 Dzerzhinsky Avenue, 220116, Minsk, Republic of Belarus

    Andrey Bespalchuk

  3. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Iwate Medical School, Uchimaru 19-1, 020-8505, Morioka, Japan

    Jun Nishida

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Bespalchuk, A., Okada, K., Nishida, J. et al. Stress fracture of the second metacarpal bone. Skeletal Radiol 33, 537–540 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-004-0758-x

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