Distal Femoral Subchondral Metastasis Mistaken for an Insufficiency Fracture and Treated with Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Case Report

Autor:	Trevor R. Born, Tad M. Mabry, Peter S. Rose
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Second opinion Total knee arthroplasty Pain relief medicine.disease Surgery Metastasis Lesion Breast cancer medicine Insufficiency fracture Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Radiology medicine.symptom business
Zdroj:	JBJS case connector. 4(4)
ISSN:	2160-3251
Popis:	Case: A seventy-three-year-old woman who had been given the tentative diagnosis of spontaneous osteonecrosis presented to our clinic for a second opinion. Additional imaging and evaluation revealed the lesion to be a subchondral metastasis consistent with breast cancer. She received proper oncologic treatment and subsequent total knee arthroplasty. Conclusion: Orthopaedic surgeons should be aware of the possibility of metastatic disease manifesting itself in the form of an isolated subchondral lesion about the knee. For patients with such lesions, treatment in the form of total knee arthroplasty is a viable option that can provide excellent pain relief and function.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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