A fracture is a break in your bone. A break is called a pathologic fracture when force or impact didn’t cause the break to happen. Instead, an underlying disease leaves your bones weak and brittle.

Hiroshi Urakawa; Satoshi Tsukushi; Kozo Hosono; Hideshi Sugiura; Kenji Yamada; Yoshihisa Yamada; Eiji Kozawa; Eisuke Arai; Naohisa Futamura; Naoki Ishiguro; Yoshihiro Nishida In UBCs of humerus, ...

A pathologic fracture is a broken bone that’s caused by a disease, rather than an injury. Some conditions weaken your bones, which makes them more likely to break. Everyday things, such as coughing, ...

Bone cysts, most commonly benign and fluid-filled, are a significant concern in the paediatric population. These lesions predominantly affect the long bones and can weaken the normal architecture, ...

Because of the benign nature of UBC, the primary purpose of treatment is prevention of pathological fracture. Some reports have identified risk factors of pathological fractures. Previous reports ...