Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — General orthopedic surgeons can quickly learn to treat proximal humerus fractures with either open ...

Patients with proximal humerus fractures demonstrated substantially higher mortality rates than their matched control individuals from the general population over a 2-year period, with the highest ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Increased inpatient morbidity, longer postoperative length of stay and nonroutine discharge are more likely ...

The results of a recent Nordic collaboration study showed that there is no difference in functional results between operative and non-operative treatment in persons aged 60 or more with displaced ...

1 Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 2 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Correspondence to: Professor ...

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A supracondylar fracture is an injury to the humerus, or upper arm bone, at its narrowest point, just above the elbow. Supracondylar fractures are most common in children under 7 years old, but they ...

What is a humerus fracture? The humerus is the upper arm bone that runs from shoulder to elbow. Any type of break in this bone is referred to as a humerus fracture. Depending upon the location of the ...

These radiographs reveal a mildly displaced, comminuted spiral fracture at the distal diaphysis of the left humerus with an associated butterfly fragment (Fig. 1). The patient, a healthy recreational ...