title: [Treatment and results of pathologic fractures. A collaborative study from 1965 to 1985 of 16 Austrian hospitals].
abstract: A total of 595 patients treated over a 20-year period in 16 Austrian hospitals for pathologic fractures, most caused by metastases of malignant disease, were analysed retrospectively. It appeared that women were affected by pathologic fractures 2.5 times as often as men. Most of the fractures had occurred when the patients were between 60 and 80 years of age. It was found that there were three types of carcinoma for which an association with pathologic fracture was particularly frequent (breast, bronchi, kidney). In a high percentage of these cases widespread metastatic disease was already present when the pathologic fracture occurred. Well over 80% of the fractures were surgically treated, and the complication rate associated with surgery was 19.8%. A questionnaire was also prepared, with questions relating to statistical parameters and to different forms of therapy and the results obtained with them.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Heinz
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stoik
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vécsei
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001317:Austria; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Behandlung und Ergebnisse von pathologischen Frakturen. Sammelstudie aus den Jahren 1965 bis 1985 aus 16 österreichischen Krankenhüsern.