Specimen shown and case reported at the meeting of the Surgical Section of the Suffolk District Medical Society, December 4, 1895.

One of the largest published studies on simultaneous hip and upper limb fragility fractures shows that upper limb fractures are more likely to occur with hip fractures than lower limb fractures.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Proximal humerus nonunions present a significant challenge for the surgeon. Many patients with proximal humerus ...

Background: Precise indications for computed tomography (CT) in proximal humeral fractures are not established. The purpose of this study was a comparison of conventional radiographic views with ...

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 ...

Background: The treatment of fractures in children and adolescents must be based on an adequate knowledge of the physiology of the growing skeleton. Treatment failures usually do not result from ...