Conservative management of proximal humeral fractures: Can poor functional outcome be related to standard transscapular radiographic evaluation?

Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-281

  Poeze, Martijn ^a   Lenssen, Anton F ^a   Van Empel, Joey M ^a   Verbruggen, Jan P ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

conservative treatment; fracture; functional outcome; prognosis; Proximal humerus; radiographic evaluation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; JOINT INSTABILITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOULDER FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 76949093038     PISSN: 10582746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jse.2009.07.066     Document Type: Article

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