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.

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