Predicting Fracture Risk in Patients with Metastatic Bone Disease of the Femur: A Pictorial Review Using Three Different Techniques

Figure 9

True negative (CTRA-/Fx-) (Case 7, R femur). This figure is for the same subject in Figure 8 but now depicts the right femur. (a) Initial X-ray imaging shows a mixed osteoblastic and osteolytic lesion in the intertrochanteric region of the right femur. (b) Both CTRA and FEA were run and neither predicted the subject to fracture. (c) Imaging taken 20 months after her initial evaluation demonstrates progression of her MBD but without fracture.

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