TY - JOUR T1 - Risk Assessment for Pathological Fracture After Bone Tumour Biopsy JF - Anticancer Research JO - Anticancer Res SP - 679 LP - 686 DO - 10.21873/anticanres.14819 VL - 41 IS - 2 AU - TADASHI IWAI AU - MANABU HOSHI AU - NAOTO OEBISU AU - KUMI ORITA AU - AKIYOSHI SHIMATANI AU - NAOKI TAKADA AU - HIROAKI NAKAMURA Y1 - 2021/02/01 UR - http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/41/2/679.abstract N2 - Aim: This study aimed to identify the risk of pathological fractures after bone tumour biopsy. Materials and Methods: Fifty rabbit femurs were divided into groups according to defect size: Control (no defect), type 1 (10% width), type 2 (20% width), type 3 (30% width), and type 4 (40% width). Another 20 were also divided into control, type A (27% length), type B (40% length), and type C (53% length) groups. Performing femoral head compression testing allowed each parameter (maximum load, displacement, elastic modulus, and fracture energy) to be calculated individually. Results: Compressive maximum load was significantly higher for type 1 than for the other types when testing rectangular defects of different widths, while there were no significant differences between the three types when testing by defect length. Conclusion: It may be useful for orthopaedic oncologists to make a rectangular biopsy hole with a width measuring less than 10% of the circumference and to enlarge the hole longitudinally to avoid pathological fracture. ER -