Observations on 50 Cases of the Pathological Fractures

Fifty patients with pathological fractures treated in our orthopaedic clinic from 1957 to 1971 were analyzed. Vertebral fracture and epiphysiolysis were excluded because it was thought that they would confuse the analysis.Twenty-three of the patients were male, and twenty-seven were female.Twenty-three fractures associated with bone tumors and tumorous conditions had been seen in the humerus, metaphysis of the femur and around the knee joint etc.. Each benign tumor of bone had been curetted, and the cavity had been packed with cortical and cancellous bone grafts.Sixteen fractures associated with bony metastasis of miscellaneous cancer had been seen in the metaphysis of the femur and rib etc..There were seven fractures occurred in the patients with osteomyelitis which located at the diaphysis of humerus and tibia etc..