Proximal humeral fractures in geriatric patients. Is the angle-stable plate osteosynthesis really a breakthrough?

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 571-579

  Frangen, Thomas Manfred ^a   Müller, Ernst Josef ^a,c   Dudda, Marcel ^a   Arens, Stephan ^a,b   Muhr, Gert ^a,b   Kälicke, Thomas ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Heart Center Siegburg   (Germany)

^c Landeskrankenhaus Klagenfurt ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Angle stable plate osteosynthesis; Clinical results; Complications; Geriatric patients; Proximal humeral fracture

Indexed keywords

ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; DISLOCATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; HUMERUS; INJURY SCALE; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BONE PLATES; DISLOCATIONS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; HUMERUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOULDER FRACTURES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 35748942910     PISSN: 00016462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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