Operative treatment of isolated greater tuberosity fractures: Retrospective review of clinical and functional outcomes

Orthopedics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Yin, Bob ^a   Moen, Todd C ^a   Thompson, Scott A ^a   Bigliani, Louis U ^a   Ahmad, Christopher S ^a   Levine, William N ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANGE OF MOTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY; SHOULDER FRACTURE; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864652397     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20120525-17     Document Type: Article

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