Radiotherapy and chemotherapy will result in an increase in the number of pathological fractures that occur, principally as a consequence of metastatic disease. These lesions are painful, especially at the level of the femur, and are apt to make invalids of the patient. If surgical intervention is a
Survival times after treatment of pathologic fractures
โ Scribed by Ralph C. Marcove; Dah-jung Yang
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1967
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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