Fracture of the femoral component after a lightning strike injury: Acase report

Abstract

A fracture of the stem in a total hip arthroplasty (THA) is an uncommon complication. We report a case offemoral stem fracture in a 55-year-old male patient after a lightning strike. A revision was conductedusing a Wagner osteotomy and a revision prosthesis. Dall-Milles cerclages were used to close theosteotomy. The postoperative evolution was satisfactory, with an immediate partial weight bearing,consolidation of the osteotomy after three months and return to daily activity without pain.© 2016 Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This isan open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)