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.
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri Health Sciences Center, Columbia 65212.
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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*