Disseminated intravascular coagulation complicating Ender's nailing of a pathologic fracture in prostatic carcinoma. A case report
Olson, S.A.; Humphreys, W.G.; Allen, W.C.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 1990(258): 242-244
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-921X PMID: 2394052 Document Number: 364861
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) occurred after closed Ender's pinning of a pathologic fracture of the humerus in a 58-year-old man with metastatic prostatic carcinoma. A review of the oncologic and urologic literature revealed that coagulopathy can be associated with prostatic carcinoma. This association seems not to have been previously reported in the orthopedic literature.