Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Intramedullary nail fixation is an “excellent choice” for patients with pathologic humeral shaft fractures, ...

We hypothesized that postoperative malrotation of humeral shaft fractures can alter the bio-mechanical environment of the shoulder; thus, rotator cuff and cartilage degeneration could be induced.

This cross-sectional study was conducted on the dry humerus bones of individuals obtained from the Raymond A. Dart Collection of Modern Human Skeletons housed in the School of Anatomical Sciences, ...

The number of periprosthetic humeral shaft fractures is on the rise related to the increasing performance of shoulder arthroplasty (especially reverse shoulder arthroplasty) in an aging population ...

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 ...

If you have a chronic health condition, it may have negative effects on the density of your bones. With weak bones, there's a higher chance that fractures can happen, even without any impact to your ...

Population-Based Profile of Mental Health and Support Service Need Among Family Caregivers of Adults With Cancer Pathologic fractures often contribute to adverse events in metastatic bone disease, and ...

Fractures can be painful and debilitating. For most people, the pain only lasts for months, but for some, pathologic fractures leave them with a lifetime of hurt. Pathologic fractures happen in bones ...

Because of the benign nature of UBC, the primary purpose of treatment is prevention of pathological fracture. Some reports have identified risk factors of pathological fractures. Previous reports ...