Critical Evaluation of Mirels' Rating System for Impending Pathologic Fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 415, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Damron, Timothy A ^a   Morgan, Hannah ^a   Prakash, Dave ^a   Grant, William ^a   Aronowitz, Jesse ^a   Heiner, John ^a  

^a Department of Orthopaedic Surgery ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVALUATION; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; MIRELS RATING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0142157073     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000093842.72468.73     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. Ampil FL, Sadasivan KK: Prophylactic and therapeutic fixation of weight-bearing long bones with metastatic cancer. South Med J 94:394-396, 2001.
2. Dijkstra PD, Oudkerk M, Wiggers T: Prediction of pathological subtrochanteric fractures due to metastatic lesions. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 116:221-224, 1997.
3. Green AG: Kappa Statistics for Multiple Raters Using Categorical Classifications. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual SAS Users Group International Conference. San Diego 1997.
4. Harrington KD: Impending pathologic fractures from metastatic malignancy: Evaluation and management. Instr Course Lect 35:357-381, 1986.
5. Hipp JA, Springfield DS, Hayes WC: Predicting pathologic fracture risk in the management of metastatic bone defects. Clin Orthop 312:120-135, 1995.
6. Keene JS, Sellinger DS, McBeath AA, Engber WD: Metastatic breast cancer in the femur: A search for the lesion at risk of fracture. Clin Orthop 203:282-288, 1986.
7. Mirels H: Metastatic disease in long bones. Clin Orthop 249:256-264, 1989.
8. Ward WG, Spang J, Howe D, Gordan S: Femoral recon nails for metastatic disease: Indications, technique, and results. Am J Orthop 29(9 Suppl):34-42, 2000.