Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD The humerus is your upper arm bone. It is the longest bone in the upper part of your body and is connected to many important tendons and ligaments. The ...

Your humerus is the long bone in your upper arm that's located between your elbow and shoulder. ... Epicondyles: These are bony protrusions at the distal (lower end) of your humerus.

The major risk with this option is bone loss during extraction of the long-stem implant. Key points. There are limited options for fixation of periprosthetic distal humerus fractures around a long ...

In 2009, Matthew T. Provencher, MD, described the use of a distal tibia allograft for glenoid reconstruction in patients with significant glenoid bone loss. This was initially performed in an open ...

A humerus fracture is a break in the large bone of your upper arm. There are several types of humerus fractures, depending on the location of the break. We’ll go over the locations of each type ...

In the 1990s, a team from Museums Victoria identified the humerus bone, in the upper arm between the shoulder and the elbow, as once belonging to the Kryoryctes cadburyi, an egg-laying monotreme.

Improving Distal Fixation with Total Shoulder Arthroplasty in Cases of Severe Humeral Bone Loss. Bull Hosp Jt Dis (2013). 2015 Dec;73 Suppl 1:S42-6.* *In vitro (bench) test results may not ...

Notre Dame offensive lineman Charles Jagusah fractured the humerus bone in his left arm in a UTV crash in Wyoming on Saturday, the university said in a statement. Jagusah has undergone surgery and ...

Forty-two years ago, archaeologists in Ethiopia unearthed fossilized bones belonging to one of humanity’s earliest known ancestors to walk upright. Known as the “Lucy” skeleton, it reshaped ...

Humeral implant sales are predicted to grow at a 7.1% CAGR from 2022 to 2032, reaching US$ 2,106 million. The increased ... mid-shaft fractures, and distal humerus fractures. If the bone is moved out ...

In a study published in 2018 in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers found that, compared with crocodiles, the forelimbs of alligators have a shorter humerus bone and hindlimbs have ...