Pathological fracture is a fracture that occurs in bone weakened by preexisting disease. This xray is of 12 years old female child which shows fracture in the proximal femur and a concomitant lytic lesion.
The lesion came out to be aneurysmal bone cyst later and was treated by curettage and evacuation followed by filling the defect with bone grafting .
The white arrow marks the lytic lesion.












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