Olson S A, Humphreys W G, Allen W C
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Missouri Health Sciences Center, Columbia 65212.
Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1990 Sep(258):242-4.
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) occurred after closed Ender's pinning of a pathologic fracture of the humerus in a 58-year-old man with metastatic prostatic carcinoma. A review of the oncologic and urologic literature revealed that coagulopathy can be associated with prostatic carcinoma. This association seems not to have been previously reported in the orthopedic literature.