Hemiarthroplasty for three- and four- part displaced fractures of the proximal humerus in patients over 65 years of age

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 306-314

  Pavlopoulos, Dimitrios A ^a,b   Badras, Leonidas S ^a,b   Georgiou, Christina S ^a,b   Skretas, Efstathios F ^a,b   Malizos, Konstantinos N ^a,b,c,d  

^a General Hospital of Volos   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Displaced fracture; Elderly patients; Humeral head; Proximal humerus; Shoulder hemiarthroplasty

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447271015     PISSN: 00016462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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