Fixation of proximal humerus fractures using the PHILOS plate: Early experience

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 442, Issue , 2006, Pages 115-120

  Koukakis, Athanasios ^a   Apostolou, Constantinos D ^a,c   Taneja, Tarun ^a   Korres, Dimitrios S ^b   Amini, Alexander ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTANT SHOULDER SCORE; DEVICE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; LIMB DISEASE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROXIMAL HUMERAL INTERNAL LOCKED SYSTEM PLATE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; SHOULDER FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645064868     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000194678.87258.6e     Document Type: Conference Paper

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