Combined fracture of the greater and lesser tuberosities with intact connection of the humeral head to the shaft

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 206-208

  Meyer, Dominik C ^a   Espinosa, Norman ^a   Hertel, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; HUMERUS HEAD; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON TRACTION;

ADULT; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SHOULDER FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746266819     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000224111.21436.7f     Document Type: Article

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