Treatment of pathological humeral shaft fractures with unreamed humeral nail

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1493-1498

  Atesok, Kivanc ^a   Liebergall, Meir ^a   Sucher, Erwin ^a   Temper, Mark ^a   Mosheiff, Rami ^a   Peyser, Amos ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Function; Pain relief; Pathological humeral shaft fractures; Perioperative morbidity; Unreamed humeral nailing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BONE METASTASIS; BONE NAIL; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOMA; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THERAPY EFFECT; THYROID CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NAILS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34047226341     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-006-9257-8     Document Type: Review

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