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Reprint of article in Injury on Orthofix website

Pathologic Humerus Fracture Reuben Gobezie MD, Brent A. Ponce MD, John Ready MD DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDICS, BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, BOSTON MA Introduction Bony lesions may result in pathologic fractures. These lesions, when not of mesenchymal origin, commonly include myeloma, lymphoma, and most commonly metastastic carcinoma. The axial skeleton is the third most common...

Wheeless'in children, supracondylar frxs typically remains extra-articular & involves thin bone between coronoid fossa & olecranon fossa of distal humerus; - frx line angles from anterior distal point to posterior prox site; ...

Medscape 2000 Report on presentation on Polaris Humeral Intramedullary Nailing

OTA paper 2004

Abstract OTA paper 2004
Conclusion/Significance: Plating of humeral shaft fractures has traditionally been performed with 4.5-mm dynamic compression plates, broad or narrow, with good results, and this method is treated as our control group in this study. The smaller 3.5-mm plate offers the theoretical advantage of more holes per unit length,...

2 Cases Report. J Korean Fracture Soc. 2000 Oct;13(4):978-98 Spiral fractures of the middle or distal shaft of the humerus that occur during attempts to throw a variety of objects are not common. Many authors have reported that the cause of fracture was the results of uncoordinated muscle violence. We...

OTA 2002 - Session 10 Session X - Upper Extremity Sun., 10/13/02 Upper Extremity, Paper #64, 10:16 AM Treatment of High-Energy Supracondylar/Intercondylar Fractures of the Distal Humerus Lisa K. Cannada, MD , Mary B. Zadnik, OTR/L; Walter Andrew Eglseder, MD; University of Maryland Medical Center, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore,...