The management of humeral shaft fractures with associated radial nerve palsy: A review of 117 cases

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 519-522

  Bumbaširević, Marko ^a   Lešić, Aleksandar ^a   Bumbaširević, Vesna ^a   Čobeljić, Goran ^b   Milošević, Ivan ^a   Atkinson, Henry Dushan E ^c,d  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b Institute for Orthopaedic Surgery Banjica   (Serbia)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d North Middlesex University Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expectant treatment; Humerus fracture; Non operative; Radial nerve palsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORTICAL BONE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; OPEN FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE PALSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLINTING; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON TRANSFER; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL NERVE; RADIAL NEUROPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951023936     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-009-0951-4     Document Type: Article

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