Current concepts review proximal humeral fracture treatment in adults

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 251-261

  Maier, Dirk ^a   Jaeger, Martin ^a   Izadpanah, Kaywan ^a   Strohm, Peter C ^a   Suedkamp, Norbert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTHROPLASTY; BONE DENSITY; BONE INJURY; BONE NECROSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMERAL HEAD COLLAPSE; HUMERUS FRACTURE; HUMERUS HEAD; HUMERUS HEAD NECROSIS; INTERLOCKING NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; ISCHEMIA; JOB EXPERIENCE; JOINT FUNCTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PERFORATION; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROXIMAL HUMERAL FRACTURE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVERSE SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF; SCREW PERFORATION; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBEROSITY MALUNION; VARUS DEFORMITY; VASCULARIZATION; ADULT; ARTHROSCOPY; BONE NAIL; BONE PLATE; CLASSIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SHOULDER FRACTURE;

ADULT; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; ARTHROSCOPY; BONE NAILS; BONE PLATES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HEMIARTHROPLASTY; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; SHOULDER FRACTURES;

EID: 84896312401     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.01293     Document Type: Review

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