Total Elbow Arthroplasty as Primary Treatment for Distal Humeral Fractures in Elderly Patients*
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 79 (6) , 826-32
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-199706000-00004
Abstract
We retrospectively reviewed the results of primary total elbow arthroplasty for the treatment of an acute fracture of the distal aspect of the humerus in twenty consecutive patients (twenty-one elbows) who had a mean age of seventy-two years (range, forty-eight to ninety-two years) at the tiKeywords
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