Metastatic Tumours

Description: Metastatic bone tumours: Notes on common causes and how to manage a bony metastasis
Metastases are the most common bone tumours in older patients. They will present to the orthopaedic surgeon with pain, either because of an actual or threatened pathological fracture, or will present with a lytic or sclerotic bone lesion. The patient may have had a primary diagnosed years beforehand, and a history of previous surgery or investigations must be extracted as such information is not always volunteered.