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To the Editor: The Image in Clinical Medicine in the October 9 issue¹ shows a pathologic humerus through a focus of metastatic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The authors state that the arm was immobilized and that after four weeks the patient "had regained a full range of motion of his left arm and had no pain in the arm." Although these criteria are important in assessing the patient's well-being, physical examination to manipulate the bone at the fracture site and radiographs to look for signs of bony union are more important in determining when a fracture is healed.

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