SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.23 issue1Meralgia paresthetica author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

  • Have no cited articlesCited by SciELO

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey

On-line version ISSN 1025-0255

Abstract

ALVAREZ-LOPEZ, Alejandro; SOTO-CARRASCO, Sergio Ricardo  and  GARCIA-LORENZO, Yenima de la Caridad. Bone metastasis: orthopedic point of view. AMC [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.1, pp.144-154. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background:

cancer is a common cause of morbidity-mortality affecting many people internationally and nationally. One way of presentation is bone metastases.

Objective:

to deepen the knowledge about the management of patients suffering from bone metastasis from a point of view of the Orthopedics and Traumatology specialties.

Methods:

a search of information was carried out in a period of three months (January 1st, 2018 to March 31st, 2018) in the databases PubMed, Hinari, SciELO and Medline through the information locator EndNote by using the words bone metastasis, pathologic fracture, and metastatic bone disease, resulting in a total of 259 articles which 50 of them were selected for the review, 41 of them of the last five years, including ten books.

Development:

bone metastasis types were described according to radiographic aspects as: litic, blastic and mix, so like the most common origin sites. The main stages were shown, specially the one related to the risk of pathologic fracture, so that criteria were stated to define treatment. Indication and treatment modalities were described, as well as prognostic factors.

Conclusions:

metastatic bone disease is a great challenge for orthopedic surgeon, there are specific indications for surgery and one of the most important aspects to take in mind is the risk of pathologic fracture.

Keywords : NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, BONE TISSUE; BONE NEOPLASMS/surgery; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )