TY - BOOK AU - Moustafa Salah Eldin Mohamed Salem AU - Ahmed Mohamed Nabil Elghoneimy , AU - Walid Atef Ebeid , TI - Prophylacticsurgical intervention of skeletal metastases / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Moustafa Salah Eldin Mohamed Salem , KW - Metastases KW - Orthopaedic KW - Prophylacticurgical N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Orthopedic Surgery; Issued also as CD N2 - Any corrical defect of bone can greatly weaken it, especially in torsion. There are two general types of defects, lesions that are less than the diameter of bone \ and lesions that are greater than the diameter of the involved bone on maximum dimension (open section). Stress risers have been studied in relation to screw hole size by who found a 70% decrease in energy storage capacity by a single drill hole in rabbit bone. In normal bone, shear stresses are distributed evenly in cross section UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -