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- Discussion: 
    - see metastatic carcinoma;
    - will also produce increased bone density
    - 30% of lung mets will show increased bone density on radiographs;
    - avgerage life expectancy w/ metastatic lung Ca + pending pathologic frx is 3 months (vs. 18 months in breast ca);
    - w/ IM nailing of femoral shaft lesions, beware of  fat embolism syndrome

             

Images in Clinical Medicine. Pain in the Thumb Related to Disease in the Lung

Surgery for skeletal metastases in lung cancer.