Predicting Pathologic Bone Lesions Using Scout Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging

Figure 3

Injury and postoperative radiographs of the pathologic subtrochanteric femur fracture in the patient described in Figure 2. Twelve days after the routine surveillance CT, the patient sustained a pathologic subtrochanteric femur fracture after a fall from a standing height (a). He subsequently underwent proximal femoral replacement by an oncology fellowship-trained surgeon (b).

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