Fernández PLJ, Peláez DP, Orihuela FV, Azcona CA

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ABSTRACT

Pelvic fractures can be diagnosed in several situations. When an idiopatic lesion with no severe trauma is seen, multiple clinical situations must be discharged including metastasis and metabolic bone alterations or poor bone quality. We present the case of a 73 years female patient with an idiopatic unstable C type pelvic fracture in an osteolytic bone with no previous trauma. She was diagnosed with Gorham-Stout disease, an idiopatic osteolysis with unknown etiology. It is a rare condition, with an exclusion diagnosis, that affects people of any age and gender. Its treatment is controverisial. No treatment has proved to be successful and few criteria have been established for the correct diagnosis.

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