Humerus pathological fracture revealing biliary carcinoma
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology A, Hassan II Academic Medical Center, Fes, Morocco. k.lahrach@hotmail.com
Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Surgery & Research : OTSR
|November 9, 2010
Abstract:
Tumors of the biliary tract are rare, and their survival prognosis is short since diagnosis is often made at advanced stages of the disease. Diagnosis remains difficult because symptoms are often unspecific. Bone metastasis from biliary carcinoma are rare. We report a case of a humeral metastasis revealing a biliary carcinoma.
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