Proximal humeral fractures: Current controversies

Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 827-832

  Resch, Herbert ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY; BIOMECHANICS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORTICAL BONE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; HUMERUS HEAD; IMPLANT; JOINT RADIOGRAPHY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OSSIFICATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; VARUS DISRUPTION; VARUS IMPACTION; VASCULARIZATION;

FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; SHOULDER FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958782156     PISSN: 10582746     EISSN: 15326500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jse.2011.01.009     Document Type: Review

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