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Paint the Whole Picture for This Podiatric Pathologic Fracture

Published on Tue Sep 20, 2022

Question: My podiatrist saw a patient who fractured his right foot. The patient was diagnosed with left upper lobe carcinoma five years ago, and then several months ago, he was diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer (from the lung). The patient’s foot fracture was a result of the metastatic cancer. The patient’s lung cancer has already been treated with radiation, and the [...]
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