TY - JOUR JF - iums-jros JO - J. Res. Orthop. Sci. VL - 6 IS - 4 PY - 2019 Y1 - 2019/11/01 TI - A Typical Metatarsal Fracture in a Patient on Long-Term Bisphosphonate Therapy TT - N2 - Bisphosphonates, more particularly alendronate, are a popular category of drugs in the treatment of postmenopausal and corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis. The present study contends that the long-term consumption of bisphosphonates causes not only subtrochanteric and femoral shaft fractures but also pathological fractures at other musculoskeletal sites. This report presents a rare case of alendronate-induced pathological metatarsal fracture in a 59-year-old female with a history of cuboid fracture following a twisting with abnormal Bone Mineral Density (BMD) (T score: −3.5; lumbar spine and −2.6; proximal femur). SP - 25 EP - 30 AU - Valiollahi, Bijan AU - Salehpour, Mostafa AU - Bashari, Hamidreza AU - Majdi, Shoeib AU - Mohammadpour, Mehdi AD - Bone and Joint Reconstruction Research Center, Shafa Orthopedic Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. KW - Atypical fracture KW - bisphosphonate KW - metatarsal UR - http://jros.iums.ac.ir/article-1-2043-en.html DO - 10.32598/JROSJ.6.4.67 ER -