In brief: classifications in brief: Mirels' classification: metastatic disease in long bones and impending pathologic fracture.
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The earliest efforts to predict the risk of an impending fracture in the presence of tumor dates to the 1960s [1–3, 10, 11]. Although some of the earlier studies made positive contributions, they lacked supportive statistical evidence. Later, several larger and well-documented studies were designed to identify the features of an impending pathologic fracture [4, 7, 8]. Although the statistical power of the later studies was improved, they failed to reach an agreement regarding specific criteria on which to base the decision of prophylactic fixation. It was not until 1989 when Hilton Mirels proposed a rating system to classify pathologic fracture risk [12].
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical orthopaedics and related research
دوره 468 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010