Author:
Desai Vishal S.,Amendola Richard L.,Mann Kenneth A.,Damron Timothy A.
Abstract
Abstract
Background
The proximal femur is a common site of bone metastasis. The Mirels’ score is a frequently utilized system to identify patients at risk for pathologic fracture and while it has consistently demonstrated strong sensitivity, specificity has been relatively poor. Our group previously developed a Modified Mirels’ scoring system which demonstrated improved ability to predict cases at risk of fracture in this patient population through modification of the Mirels’ location score. The purpose of the present study is to internally validate this newly developed scoring system on an independent patient series.
Methods
Retrospective review was performed to identify patients who were evaluated for proximal femoral bone lesions. Patients were stratified into one of two groups: 1) those who went on to fracture within 4 months after initial evaluation (Fracture Group) and 2) those who did not fracture within 4 months of initial evaluation (No Fracture Group). Retrospective chart review was performed to assign an Original Mirels’ (OM) Score and Modified Mirels’ (MM) score to each patient at the time of initial evaluation. Descriptive statistics, logistic regression, receiver operating curve, and net benefit analyses were performed to determine the predictability of fractures when utilizing both scoring systems.
Results
The use of the MM scoring improved fracture prediction over OM scoring for patients observed over a 4 month follow up based on logistic regression. Decision curve analysis showed that there was a net benefit using the MM score over the OM scoring for a full range of fracture threshold probabilities. Fracture prevalence was similar for current internal validation dataset when compared to the dataset of our index study with a comparable reduction in misclassification of fracture prediction when utilizing the modified scoring system versus the original.
Conclusions
Use of MM scoring was found to improve fracture prediction over OM scoring when tested on an internal validation set of patients with disseminated metastatic lesions to the proximal femur. The improvement in fracture prediction demonstrated in the present study mirrored the results of our index study during which the MM system was developed.
Funder
Funded in part by the Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund of Central New York.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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