Metastatic Tumors
A 68-year-old woman with known breast cancer presents with progressive right thigh pain. Radiographs show a lytic lesion in the proximal femur involving 60% of the cortex. She has no other skeletal metastases on staging workup. Her oncologist estimates her survival at greater than 12 months. The lesion is painful with weight bearing but she has not fractured. Regarding metastatic bone disease:
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The skeleton is the third most common site of metastatic disease after lung and liver; carcinomas of...
The Mirels scoring system predicts pathological fracture risk using four criteria (3 points each): s...
Bone metastases are rare in cancer patients; the appendicular skeleton is more commonly affected tha...
Surgical principles include: expect the lesion will not heal so fixation must last lifetime of patie...
Bisphosphonates and denosumab reduce skeletal-related events (pathological fracture, radiation, surg...
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