A nurse obtains the health history of a client with a fractured femur.Which factor identified in the client's history should the nurse recognize as an aspect that may impede healing of the fracture?

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Paget's disease and bone cancer can cause pathologic fractures such as a fractured femur that do not achieve total healing.The other factors do not impede healing but may cause other health risks.

A Nurse Obtains the Health History of a Client with a Fractured