Surgical landmarks to determine humeral head retrotorsion for hemiarthroplasty in fractures

Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 460-463

  Hempfing, Axel ^b   Leunig, Michael ^b   Ballmer, Franz T ^b   Hertel, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM INJURY; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMERUS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; ROTATION; TORSION;

ARTHROPLASTY; HUMANS; HUMERUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROTATION; SHOULDER FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TORSION;

EID: 0035459857     PISSN: 10582746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mse.2001.117127     Document Type: Article

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