Femoral neck ostectomy: an alternative to hip replacement in acetabular metastatic disease.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A 68 year old man underwent a femoral neck ostectomy as a palliative procedure for pain in the right hip secondary to an extensive acetabular metastasis from renal cell carcinoma. Excellent pain relief was achieved and he remained mobile until shortly before his death 8 months later.
Medical subject headings
- Bone Neoplasms
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell
- Femur Neck
- Kidney Neoplasms
- Osteotomy
Anatomy
- femur
- hip