Case Reports
Unilateral Femoral Fracture in a Low Birth Weight Infant: A Case Report
2015 Volume 82 Issue 2 Pages 106-108
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2015 Volume 82 Issue 2 Pages 106-108
Femoral fractures due to birth trauma are an extremely rare but important birth injury. While vaginal breech delivery, although rare, can cause femur fracture, abdominal breech delivery is not expected to cause fracture. Here we report on a low birth weight infant who was delivered by cesarean section for breech presentation at 30 1/7 weeks of gestation and sustained a unilateral fracture of the femoral shaft.
