A pathologic fracture is defined as a fracture occurring in a pathologically altered bone whose normal integrity and strength have been compromised by an invasive disease or destructive process. Usually a low mechanical force, one which would have left a normal bone intact, is sufficient to fracture the bone altered by a local or systemic disease process. Pathologic fractures usually lack significant soft tissue injury unlike traumatic fractures.
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Abou Elsoud, M. M., Liener, U., & Kinzl, L. (2014). Pathologic fractures. In General Trauma Care and Related Aspects: Trauma Surgery II (pp. 263–280). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88124-7_19
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