Metastatic Bone Disease of the Humerus
- 1 July 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- Vol. 11 (4) , 282-288
- https://doi.org/10.5435/00124635-200307000-00008
Abstract
Metastatic bone disease is the most common cause of destructive bone lesions in adults, and involvement of the humerus is common. Patients with destructive lesions involving <50% of the cortex are treated nonsurgically with external beam irradiation. Patients with diaphyseal lesions involvinKeywords
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