Pathologic fracture

A pathologic fracture is a bone fracture caused by weakness of the bone structure that leads to decrease mechanical resistance to normal mechanical loads. This process is most commonly due to osteoporosis, but may also be due to other pathologies such as: cancer, infection (such as osteomyelitis), inherited bone disorders, or a bone cyst. [Source: Wikipedia ]

May Cause
Localized periosteal reaction
Localized wide epiphyseal plate
Pseudoarthrosis
Solitary collapsed vertebra
Spinal block
Wedged vertebra
Widespread periosteal reaction
May Be Caused by
Achondrogenesis type 1A
Aluminum intoxication
Amyoplasia
Antley-Bixler syndrome
Arthrogryposis
Aspartylglucosaminuria
Bone cyst
Bruck syndrome
Congenital insensitivity to pain
Copper deficiency
Craniometadiaphyseal dysplasia Wormian bone type
Cushing syndrome
Cutis laxa
Cystinosis
Diaphyseal medullary stenosis with bone malignancy Hardcastle type
Dyskeratosis congenita
Dysosteosclerosis
Enchondromatosis
Fetal akinesia sequence
Fibrous dysplasia
Fluorosis
Gaucher disease
Gerodermia osteodysplastica
Glycogen storage disease type 1
GM1 gangliosidosis
Homocystinuria
Hyperparathyroidism
Hyperphosphatasia
Hyperthyroidism
Hypophosphatasia
Idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis
Kasabach-Merritt syndrome
Koller syndrome
Lethal osteosclerotic skeletal dysplasia Raine type
Leukemia
Lichtenstein syndrome
Lowe syndrome
Lysinuric protein intolerance
Maffucci syndrome
Membranous lipodystrophy
Menkes disease
Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia Jansen type
Metastasis
Milkman syndrome
Mucolipidosis type 2
Neoplasm
Niemann-Pick disease
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Osteomalacia
Osteomyelitis
Osteopetrosis
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis-pseudoglioma syndrome
Oxalosis
Paget disease of bone
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
Progeria
Pyknodysostosis
Pyle dysplasia
Radiation therapy
Renal tubular acidosis
Rickets
Riley-Day syndrome
Scurvy
Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia corner-fracture type
Stiff-man syndrome
Thalassemia
Thevenard syndrome
Trichorhinophalangeal dysplasia type 2
Werdnig-Hoffmann syndrome
Wilson disease
Yunis-Varon syndrome
Achondrogenesis type 1A
Aluminum intoxication
Amyoplasia
Antley-Bixler syndrome
Arthrogryposis
Aspartylglucosaminuria
Bone cyst
Bruck syndrome
Congenital insensitivity to pain
Copper deficiency
Craniometadiaphyseal dysplasia Wormian bone type
Cushing syndrome
Cutis laxa
Cystinosis
Diaphyseal medullary stenosis with bone malignancy Hardcastle type
Dyskeratosis congenita
Dysosteosclerosis
Enchondromatosis
Fetal akinesia sequence
Fibrous dysplasia
Fluorosis
Gaucher disease
Gerodermia osteodysplastica
Glycogen storage disease type 1
GM1 gangliosidosis
Homocystinuria
Hyperparathyroidism
Hyperphosphatasia
Hyperthyroidism
Hypophosphatasia
Idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis
Kasabach-Merritt syndrome
Koller syndrome
Lethal osteosclerotic skeletal dysplasia Raine type
Leukemia
Lichtenstein syndrome
Lowe syndrome
Lysinuric protein intolerance
Maffucci syndrome
Membranous lipodystrophy
Menkes disease
Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia Jansen type
Metastasis
Milkman syndrome
Mucolipidosis type 2
Neoplasm
Niemann-Pick disease
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Osteomalacia
Osteomyelitis
Osteopetrosis
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis-pseudoglioma syndrome
Oxalosis
Paget disease of bone
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
Progeria
Pyknodysostosis
Pyle dysplasia
Radiation therapy
Renal tubular acidosis
Rickets
Riley-Day syndrome
Scurvy
Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia corner-fracture type
Stiff-man syndrome
Thalassemia
Thevenard syndrome
Trichorhinophalangeal dysplasia type 2
Werdnig-Hoffmann syndrome
Wilson disease
Yunis-Varon syndrome