[Fatigue fracture of the tibia following osteosynthesis. An interesting case]

Stress-fractures most often affect healthy bones, in the majority of cases the tibia. We report a case of a young man who had a stress-fracture 18 months after osteosynthesis of a lower leg-fracture. Under biomechanical aspects an oscillation-fracture is mostly probable because the angle of the fracture is exactly 45 degrees to the longitudinal axis of the tibia.