The health care professional is caring for a person who has a pathologic fracture. The patient asks the professional to explain the condition. What response by the professional is best?
A)The outer surface of the bone is disrupted, but the inside is intact.
B)A stable fracture where the cortex of the bone bends but doesn't break.
C)A fracture that happens at the site of an abnormality already in that bone.
D)It was caused by the cumulative effects of stress on the bone over time.

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A pathologic fracture is a break at the site of a preexisting abnormality, usually by force that would not fracture a normal bone. A greenstick fracture is one in which the outer surface is disrupted but the inside in intact. The stable fracture with a bent but not broken cortex is a torus fracture. Cumulative stress results in stress fractures.

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