[The treatment of bone lesions in myelomatosis (author's transl)].
41 patients suffering from a bone lesion due to myelomatosis were treated (32 multiple myelomata and 9 solitary myelomata). Diagnosis was established by biopsy in 9 cases. In 8 cases there was compression of the spinal cord or of a spinal root. 15 pathological fractures were treated by fixation and bony union was always obtained. In 7 other cases, fixation was used to prevent fracture and 2 patients had a total joint prosthesis. It is concluded that the treatment of the bony lesions of myelomatosis is comparable to that of bony metastases but the average survival is much longer.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000379:methods; D010954:Plasmacytoma / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery
Problèmes orthopédiques posés par les localisations osseuses du myélome.