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Unilateral Femoral Fracture in a Low Birth Weight Infant: A Case Report

Young Sun Kim, Hyo Sang Han and Jae Hong Sang

Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soonchunhyang University Gumi Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Korea

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.

J Nippon Med Sch 2015; 82: 106-108

Keywords
birth injury, breech presentation, cesarean section, femoral fracture, low birth weight

Correspondence to
Jae-Hong Sang, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Soonchunhyang University Gumi Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, 250 Gongdan-dong, Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Seoul, Republic of Korea
thorsang@hanafos.com

Received, June 30, 2014
Accepted, August 28, 2014