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We have operated on 42 patients with bone metastasis from various primary tumors over the past fourteen years. The number of operated cases of metastasis secondary to thyroid and breast carcinoma was especially high, since patients with such types of cancer have prolonged life expectancies in general. The sites of these operation were as follows: 27 in the spine, 12 in the femur, 2 in the tibia, and 1 in the humerus.
This work was supported in part by the Japanese Orthopaedics and Traumatology Foundation (Grant No. 0036) and a Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (Grant No. 02807140) from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan.
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Iwamoto, Y., Sugioka, Y., Chuman, H., Shiba, K., Yuge, I. (1992). Surgical Treatment of Metastatic Tumors of Long Bones and the Spine. In: Karr, J.P., Yamanaka, H. (eds) Prostate Cancer and Bone Metastasis. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 324. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3398-6_32
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