Abstract

QUESADA MUSA, Juan Vicente  and  DELGADO RIFA, Eraclio. Hip fracture and the multiple myeloma. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 2011, vol.25, n.2, pp.159-164. ISSN 0864-215X.

This is the case of a patient aged 75 came to Orthopedics and Traumatology service of the "Ernesto Guevara de la Serna" General Teaching Hospital in Las Tunas province, operated on of a hip pathological fracture one a half year ago, without an obvious tumor image, lost of follow-up reappearing in the first consultation after this time presenting with a re-fracture of the trochanteric region, whose study demonstrated a multiple myeloma. This is an infrequent and interesting case from the scientific and educational point of view.

Keywords : fracture; pathological; hip; myeloma; multiple.

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