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Straight proximal humeral nails are surrounded by more bone stock in comparison to bent nails in an experimental cadaveric study

BACKGROUND: In the management of proximal humeral fractures intramedullary implants with bent and straight shape of the proximal part of nail are available. Based on data from previous studies on bone distribution in the humeral head, we hypothesized, that higher densities might exist in the bone st...

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Autores principales: Günther, Christian Max, Müller, Peter Ernst, Mutschler, Wolf, Sprecher, Christoph Martin, Milz, Stefan, Braunstein, Volker
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4016779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24817909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-8-18