Fracturas osteolíticas del adulto y el niño como factor pronóstico en malignidad idiopática

Abstract

Pathological fractures are lesions where the loss of bone continuity occurs due to biomechanically normal situations, due to intrinsic factors of their structural integrity or secondary injuries. Malignancy as one of its causes, can be derived from tumors of primary bone origin or metastases of other organs and affects adults and children in a variable way, although the characteristics and repercussions can be heterogeneous. Osteolytic lesions are characteristic of the destruction of bone tissue, including cortical thinning, loss of medullary component and in the case of malignant lesions presenting a soft tissue mass.
The burden of morbidity has an impact in terms of quality of life, disability, pain and death, by the perse disease or by the effects that arise from the treatment, so in this review we will make an approach to the main osteolytic lesions of the child and the adult of uncertain origin that are associated with malignancy.