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01.03.2013 | Editor's Spotlight/Take 5
Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Prophylactic Stabilization for Bone Metastases, Myeloma, or Lymphoma: Do We Need to Protect the Entire Bone? (DOI 10.1007/s11999-012-2656-1)
verfasst von:
Seth S. Leopold, MD
Erschienen in:
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 3/2013
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Excerpt
It is almost axiomatic, and widely considered the standard of care, that prophylactic stabilization of a long bone include the entire bone in the setting of metastatic bone disease. Many of these patients have life expectancies measured in months, and the thought that a patient could come back after a major procedure like preventative internal fixation with a pathological fracture distal to the fixation device is a risk that many surgeons just do not want to take. …