Population
72-year-old male with a history of atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, and mitral valve repair…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
7 months
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Atraumatic fractures through bone infarcts warrant malignancy evaluation; leaves open optimal management strategies for this rare entity.
Bone-infarct-associated osteosarcomas are rare, aggressive neoplasms with a poor prognosis, and an atraumatic fracture through a bone infarct should prompt evaluation for malignant degeneration.
McDonald et al. (2018) studied this question.
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