Solitary myeloma in chronic osteomyelitis presenting as a lower femoral fracture.
A 68-year-old man with chronic osteomyelitis of 40 years' duration, admitted through the Accident and Emergency Department with a fracture of the femur, required amputation through the left hip for the removal of a primitive solitary myeloma.
D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000209:etiology*; D005266:Femoral Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000150:complications*; D010954:Plasmacytoma / Q000209:etiology*