RATIONALE Proximal humerus fracture occuring simultaneously with dislocation of a shoulder in children is extremely rare, with only a few recent reports of on such cases having been reported. PATIENT CONCERNS A 6-year-old girl fell from a ladder and landed on her dominant right arm with pain in the right shoulder and unable to perform movements; her shoulder did not allow for passive movement...

to operate or not to operate, that is the question. In the case of a displaced diaphyseal fracture of the femur, this question is not a challenge. We do not need a randomised controlled trial to determine if intramedullary nailing of a fracture of the femur is more effective, for any outcome, than months in traction. However, some fractures do not offer such a clear clinical decision-making opp...

Avulsion fracture of the brachioradialis origin at its proximal attachment on the lateral supracondylar ridge of the distal humerus is exceedingly rare, and only two cases have been reported in the literature so far. In this article, we present a 38 years old patient who sustained a closed avulsion fracture of the lateral supracondylar ridge of left humerus at the proximal attachment of brachio...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the complications from surgical treatment using a locking plate among patients with fractures of the proximal extremity of the humerus. METHODS Between July 2004 and December 2009, 56 patients with fractures of the proximal extremity of the humerus were treated using the PHILOS(®) plate. There were 19 male patients and 37 female patients, with a mean age of 62 years (ran...

Current knowledge regarding the basic epidemiology of fractures is largely limited to a few fracture sites, notably those of the hip and distal forearm. To clarify the patterns of incidence of limb fractures in the elderly, we used data from a 5% sample of the U.S. Medicare population over age 65 years during the years 1986-1990. We identified incident fractures of the proximal humerus, other p...

Background: Proximal humeral fractures are third most commonly occurring of old age. PHILOS plate gives maximum fracture stabilization in the treatment proximal Aim: To assess effect management humerus and its on DASH scores. Methodology: A comparative cross-sectional analytical study was carried out from February to July 2022. Healing functional outcome assessed at 24 weeks using quick Disabil...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the epidemiological aspects of proximal humerus fractures and describe the profile of patients with proximal humerus fractures hospitalized and treated at Hospital São Paulo, between 2008 and 2013. METHODS Hospital records were retrospectively analyzed for surgically treated patients diagnosed with proximal humerus fracture. Age, gender, injury mechanism, length of hospit...