Background
Aim
The identification of skeletal metastasis & fixation prior to fracture
Incidence
50% of new cancer cases have metastasis
- 1% have pathological fracture
- increasing with more aggressive palliative care
The identification of skeletal metastasis & fixation prior to fracture
50% of new cancer cases have metastasis
- 1% have pathological fracture
- increasing with more aggressive palliative care
Fractures
Principle
- do very poorly with fixation
- hemiarthroplasty or THR
- stem should be 2.5 cortical diameters beyond any area of weakness
- THR if acetabulum involved
Benign lesion with a wide spectrum of behavior characterized by stromal cells and giant cells
Common
- 20% of benign tumours
More common females
- F:M = 1.5:1
- most tumours M>F
Usually patient in 20's
- usually after skeletal maturity
- 3% < epiphyseal closure