Healio

Study shows decline in use of total elbow arthroplasty for patients with RA, distal humerus nonunion

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recently published results showed utilization of total elbow arthroplasty has remained constant among the ...
Healio

Indications, results using arthroplasty or ORIF for distal humerus fractures differ

Surgeons can often determine whether a distal humeral fracture is amenable to treatment with open reduction internal fixation or arthroplasty based on its AO classification, whether it is far distal ...
BMJ

When physiology becomes pathology: the role of magnetic resonance imaging in evaluating bone marrow oedema in the humerus in elite tennis players with an upper limb pain syndrome

Upper limb stresses are well recognised in tennis, and the normal physiological responses of the humerus to externally applied forces are well defined. Changes to both the microscopic and macroscopic ...
CMAJ

Ball-thrower's fracture of the humerus

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 ...
BMJ

Stress reaction of the humerus in tennis players

NEO – Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Research Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil Rogerio Teixeira Silva, NEO - Sports Medicine Research Center, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Sao Paulo, Brazil; ...
Business Wire

Exactech Humeral Reconstruction Prosthesis Two-Year Patient Outcomes Demonstrate Significant Improvements in Pain and Range of Motion, No Cases of Humeral Loosening

GAINESVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Exactech, a developer and producer of innovative implants, instrumentation, and smart technologies for joint replacement surgery, announced that a new study 1 that ...
Medscape

Indications for Computed Tomography (CT-) Diagnostics in Proximal Humeral Fractures: A Comparative Study of Plain Radiography and Computed Tomography

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 ...