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Painful Boney Metastases
Boney metastasis may lead to terrible suffering from debilitating pain. The most likely malignancies that spread to bone are prostate, breast, and lung. Painful osseous metastases are typically associated with multiple episodes of breakthrough pain which may occur with activities of daily living, weight bearing, lifting, coughing, and sneezing. Almost half of these breakthrough pain episodes ar...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: July 2011
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2150-1149,1533-3159
DOI: 10.36076/ppj.2011/14/e373