Diseases

Spontaneous Fractures

Fractures occurring as a result of disease of a bone or from some undiscoverable cause, and not due to trauma. (Dorland, 27th ed)

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Abstract

Fractures occurring as a result of disease of a bone or from some undiscoverable cause, and not due to trauma. (Dorland, 27th ed)

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11 entry terms
  • Fracture, Pathologic
  • Fracture, Pathological
  • Fractures, Pathologic
  • Fractures, Pathological
  • Fractures, Spontaneous
  • Pathological Fracture
  • Pathological Fractures
  • Fracture, Spontaneous
  • Pathologic Fracture
  • Pathologic Fractures
  • Spontaneous Fracture

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35 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

fract not caused by trauma; IM; coord with specific organ /inj or organ/fract term (IM)

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  1. C26w.404w.374w

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WE 180

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Spontaneous Fractures. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005598. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005598
  2. Spontaneous Fractures. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathologic_fracture
  3. Spontaneous Fractures. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1753467