title: [Palliative orthopedic therapy in tumor-induced osteopathies].
abstract: Skeletal instabilities due to neoplastic diseases in the aged are most often of metastatic nature. Pathologic fractures are observed most frequently with breast-, lung- and prostatic primaries. Palliative orthopedic surgery by stabilisation of a pathologic fracture (osteosynthesis, endoprosthesis) or by decompression and spondylodesis of vertebral manifestations alleviate pain considerably. The mean survival time of patients mobilized after such surgery is approximately 9 months.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für orthopädische Chirurgie, Kantonsspital, St. Gallen.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Engelhardt
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000556:secondary / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005592:Fracture Fixation; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007595:Joint Prosthesis; D008297:Male; D059408:Pain Management; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*; D013123:Spinal Fusion