OPEN REDUCTION OF FRACTURE DISLOCATION OF THE HUMERUS

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Current literature contains many articles and reports of experiments on the healing or union of a bone graft or of dead bone. The case presented here is reported to urge reduction of fracture dislocation of the humeral head; it also shows the end-result in a humeral head entirely detached from the soft tissues and therefore from its blood supply. That reduction is the operation of choice in fracture dislocation, of the shoulder is agreed, but the operation is difficult and the problem is greater when the fracture is of the anatomic head. The greater comparative ease of excision accounts for the many cases that have been reported as treated in this manner. Scudder1advises reposition but does not report any cases. However, he mentions nineteen cases of excision of the humeral head and gives three case reports. Eisendrath2states that four successful reductions by operation have been reported.

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