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Do you recommend treating the entire extent of hardware for a femoral neck plasmacytoma with pathologic fracture requiring internal fixation?

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Radiation Oncology · University of Colorado School of Medicine

Since radiotherapy is potentially curative for solitary plasmacytoma, the entire hardware should be covered. Although unusual, there is slightly increased failure when the full extent of hardware is not covered. See nice paper from MDAH on this issue: Elhammali et al., PMID 31133526.

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