Minimally displaced proximal humeral fractures: Epidemiology and outcome in 507 cases

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 580-585

  Gaebler, Christian ^a   McQueen, Margaret M ^a   Court Brown, Charles M ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0142147207     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016470310017992     Document Type: Article

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