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Fig. 3

From: Joint-preserving palliative surgery using self-locking screws of intramedullary nail and percutaneous cementoplasty for proximal humeral metastasis in the advanced cancer patients

Fig. 3

A case of a 56-year-old woman with multiple bone and liver metastases due to advanced breast cancer. Pathologic fracture of the humeral neck (a) is fixed with a self-locking screw type of IM nail and PC (b). The progressive osteolysis to the humeral head is limited and no fixation failure occurred during follow-up period (c)

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World Journal of Surgical Oncology

ISSN: 1477-7819

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