Humeral Shaft Fractures Secondary to Hand Grenade Throwing

A series of five cases were presented in which similar fractures of the shaft of the humerus occurred during the hand grenade throwing activity during the military education. All the fractures were in the 1/3 distal humeral shaft, and butterfly fragments were accompanying in two soldiers. All the fr...

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Autores principales: Aydin, Bahattin Kerem, Akmese, Ramazan, Agar, Mustafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Clinical Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4045347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24967121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/962609
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description A series of five cases were presented in which similar fractures of the shaft of the humerus occurred during the hand grenade throwing activity during the military education. All the fractures were in the 1/3 distal humeral shaft, and butterfly fragments were accompanying in two soldiers. All the fractures healed without any clinical complications with conservative treatment. The mechanism of the fracture is discussed with reference to the recent literature.
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spelling pubmed-40453472014-06-25 Humeral Shaft Fractures Secondary to Hand Grenade Throwing Aydin, Bahattin Kerem Akmese, Ramazan Agar, Mustafa ISRN Orthop Clinical Study A series of five cases were presented in which similar fractures of the shaft of the humerus occurred during the hand grenade throwing activity during the military education. All the fractures were in the 1/3 distal humeral shaft, and butterfly fragments were accompanying in two soldiers. All the fractures healed without any clinical complications with conservative treatment. The mechanism of the fracture is discussed with reference to the recent literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4045347/ /pubmed/24967121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/962609 Text en Copyright © 2013 Bahattin Kerem Aydin et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Aydin, Bahattin Kerem
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Humeral Shaft Fractures Secondary to Hand Grenade Throwing
title Humeral Shaft Fractures Secondary to Hand Grenade Throwing
title_full Humeral Shaft Fractures Secondary to Hand Grenade Throwing
title_fullStr Humeral Shaft Fractures Secondary to Hand Grenade Throwing
title_full_unstemmed Humeral Shaft Fractures Secondary to Hand Grenade Throwing
title_short Humeral Shaft Fractures Secondary to Hand Grenade Throwing
title_sort humeral shaft fractures secondary to hand grenade throwing
topic Clinical Study
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4045347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24967121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/962609
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