Disseminated intravascular coagulation complicating Ender's nailing of a pathologic fracture in prostatic carcinoma. A case report.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) occurred after closed Ender's pinning of a pathologic fracture of the humerus in a 58-year-old man with metastatic prostatic carcinoma. A review of the oncologic and urologic literature revealed that coagulopathy can be associated with prostatic carcinoma. This association seems not to have been previously reported in the orthopedic literature.
Medical subject headings
- Bone Nails
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation
- Fractures, Spontaneous
- Humeral Fractures
- Prostatic Neoplasms
Anatomy
- humerus