Age, sex, primary tumor type and site are associated with mortality after pathological fractures: an observational study of 1453 patients from the Swedish Fracture Register

Table 1 Demography and distribution of the pathological fractures

	Unknown	Breast	Prostate	Kidney	Lung	Other	Myeloma	Total
Localization
Upper Extremity	107	65	62	33	44	77	96	484
Lower Extremity	152	137	173	29	77	122	73	763
Pelvic	13	6	23	4	6	19	3	74
Spine	36	8	28	6	10	24	20	132
Total	308	216	286	72	137	242	192	1453
Sex (N)
Male	145	4	286	45	53	112	105	750
Female	163	212	0	27	84	130	87	703
Treatment*
Operative	205	157	200	44	93	145	112	956
Non-operative	84	51	76	19	37	13	6	425
Age (Min–Max)	74 (18–100)	71 (35–100)	77 (53–98)	71 (24–95)	72 (49–97)	72 (37–96)	70 (18–95)	73 (18–100)

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