There are several operative approaches to repairing supracondylar humerus fractures, each with its own advocates. For fractures with vascular compromise or a median nerve deficit, an anterior or ...

Lions' Amik Robertson: Humerus fracture healedRobertson (arm) has been a full participant at OTAs, indicating that his left humerus fracture is fully healed, Jimmy Liao of USA Today Lions Wire ...

A fracture of the normal humerus in a healthy young adult most commonly results from significant direct trauma. Throwing sports have become increasingly popular outside of North America and bring with ...

In their 2008 study, Smith et al. (47) analyzed five cases of pediatric unstable upper extremity fractures were treated with transphyseal pinning, which included two Gartland type III supracondylar ...

Distal humeral physeal separations are rare injuries with a higher incidence in children <3 years of age, accounting for 7% of distal humeral injuries. (1) In neonates, the mechanism of birth-related ...

A 66-year-old woman with past medical history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, anxiety and osteoporosis presented to the ED after a ground level fall at home resulting in left elbow pain ...

Methods and analysis Eligible paediatric patients (N=750–1000) with open physes suffering from proximal humerus fractures, distal humerus fractures, proximal radius fractures, forearm shaft fractures, ...

A broken wrist or distal radius fracture is an extremely common type of fracture. It accounts for 25% to 50% of all broken bones and is most commonly seen in older females and young males.

Proximal humerus fracture: The humerus is a bone in the upper arm. The term “ proximal ” refers to the part of this bone that has a ball-like shape and connects with the socket of the shoulder ...

Stabilization of distal femoral fractures using proximal humeral locking plates has been described by Abdelgawad et al. 5 and is also used by Bor et al. 6 The shape of the plate adapts well to the ...