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, ...

A fracture is a break in your bone. A break is called a pathologic fracture when force or impact didn’t cause the break to happen. Instead, an underlying disease leaves your bones weak and brittle.

Hiroshi Urakawa; Satoshi Tsukushi; Kozo Hosono; Hideshi Sugiura; Kenji Yamada; Yoshihisa Yamada; Eiji Kozawa; Eisuke Arai; Naohisa Futamura; Naoki Ishiguro; Yoshihiro Nishida In UBCs of humerus, ...

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 ...

A supracondylar fracture is an injury to the humerus, or upper arm bone, at its narrowest point, just above the elbow. Supracondylar fractures are most common in children under 7 years old, but they ...

A pathologic fracture is a broken bone that’s caused by a disease, rather than an injury. Some conditions weaken your bones, which makes them more likely to break. Everyday things, such as coughing, ...

A fracture of the normal humerus in a healthy young adult most commonly results from significant direct trauma. Throwing sports have become increasingly popular outside of North America and bring with ...