Clinical outcome and complications using a polyaxial locking plate in the treatment of displaced proximal humerus fractures. A reliable system?

Injury

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-231

  Konigshausen M ^a   Kubler L ^a   Godry, H ^a   Citak, M ^a   Schildhauer, T A ^a   Seybold, D ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomical reduction; Locking plate; Medial support; Polyaxial locking plate; Polyaxiality; Proximal humerus fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSTANT SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITIES OF ARM,SHOULDER AND HAND SCORE; DISPLACED PROXIMAL HUMERUS FRACTURE; FEMALE; FROZEN SHOULDER; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; HUMERUS NECROSIS; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NECROSIS; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PERFORATION; POLYAXIAL LOCKING PLATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADIAL NERVE PALSY; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BONE PLATES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHOULDER FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855823379     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2011.09.024     Document Type: Article

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