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Table 2 Summary of malignant diagnosis related to pathologic fracture

From: Orthopaedic surgeons’ ability to detect pathologic hip fractures: review of 1484 fractures reported to the Norwegian Hip Fracture Register

Fracture secondary to malignant lesion

No. of 984

%

Ca. prostatae

291

29.6

Ca. mammae

196

19.9

Ca. pulm

168

17.1

Myeloma

98

10.0

Ca. renis

56

5.7

Ca. coli

26

2.6

Malignant melanoma

17

1.7

Ca. vesicae

16

1.6

Ca. pancreatic

12

1.2

Ca. origo incerta

11

1.1

B-cell lymphoma

10

1.0

Ca. oesophagi

10

1.0

Others *

73

7.4

  1. *All malignant diagnoses below 1%