Symeon Naoum

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1. Introduction Stress fractures represent a relatively common clinical entity and are frequently encountered in emergency departments. Stress fractures can be divided into fatigue and insufficiency fractures [1,2]. A fatigue fracture is a focal failure of normal bone, caused by repetitive applied stress, while an insufficiency fracture is a focal failure of abnormally weakened bone [1,3].