title: [Surgery of bone metastases in advanced age?].
abstract: Twenty-seven patients over 70 years of age (1990-1995, n = 100) achieved a stabilisation of skeletal metastasis; preventive (10), or after pathological fracture (17). Medullary pins were preferred to compound osteosynthesis. In all cases the operation was of a palliative nature, but resulted in considerable relief from pain, facilitated nursing or even improved ability to walk. Thus old age is not an indication against palliative stabilisation of skeletal metastasis.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Unfall- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie, Universitätskrankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Grabbe
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fröschle
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Waldenhoff
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Jungbluth
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000379:methods*; D005594:Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary / Q000379:methods*; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006622:Hip Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: Skelettmetastasenchirurgie im hohen Lebensalter?