La fracture de fatigue : facteurs de risque et perspectives d'identification

Prospects. - Stress fracture prevention requires identification of particular bone characteristics that predispose to this injury. Bone texture analysis, identifying microarchitectural properties, seems to offer new prospects in the identification of stress fracture susceptibility. A recent study revealed that the bone texture indicator Hmean is lower in stress fracture cases than in controls (0.7651 ± 0.027 vs 0.7877 ± 0.016; P < 0.005).