Disseminated intravascular coagulation complicating Ender's nailing of a pathologic fracture in prostatic carcinoma. A case report.
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) occurred after closed Ender's pinning of a pathologic fracture of the humerus in a 58-year-old man with metastatic prostatic carcinoma. A review of the oncologic and urologic literature revealed that coagulopathy can be associated with prostatic carcinoma. This association seems not to have been previously reported in the orthopedic literature.
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Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri Health Sciences Center, Columbia 65212.
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Allen
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D001858:Bone Nails / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000209:etiology*; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D006810:Humeral Fractures / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*