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Humeral head arthroplasty and its ability to restore original humeral head geometry
16 May 2012
Fraser Harrold, Carlos Wigderowitz
Background: Modern prosthetic components are designed to enable restoration of proximal humeral morphology, provided that a precise osteotomy of the humeral head at the level of the anatomic neck is p...
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Cementless surface replacement arthroplasty of the shoulder for osteoarthritis: results of fifty Mark III Copeland prosthesis from an independent center with four-year mean follow-up
10 May 2012
Nawfal Al-Hadithy, Peter Domos, Mathew D. Sewell, Asif Naleem, Madhavan C. Papanna, Ravi Pandit
Purpose: Few studies have reported the outcome of cementless surface replacement (CSRA). We initiated this study to analyze results of the Mark III Copeland prosthesis used as a hemiarthroplasty in pa...
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Pilomatricoma of the upper arm in an orthopaedic clinic
10 May 2012
Ansar Vance, William H. Seitz
First described in 1880 as the “calcifying epithelioma” by Malherbe and Chenantais, the pilomatricoma was thought to be a calcifying tumor derived from sebaceous glands. Almost 70 years later, in 1949...
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The natural evolution of neglected lesser tuberosity fractures in skeletally immature patients
10 May 2012
Sofie Goeminne, Philippe Debeer
Isolated avulsions of the lesser humeral tuberosity are rare injuries and only account for approximately 2% of all fractures of the proximal humerus. In skeletally immature patients, these fractures t...
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Biomechanical effectiveness of different types of tendon transfers to the shoulder for external rotation
10 May 2012
Robert U. Hartzler, Jonathan D. Barlow, Kai-Nan An, Bassem T. Elhassan
Background: Our purpose was to determine and compare the external rotation moment arm (ERMA) of the latissimus dorsi (LD), teres major (TM), and lower trapezius (LT) when transferred to selected locat...
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