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Smell and Taste Abnormalities

Smell and taste are intricately linked - as demonstrated by a bad cold, where the sense of smell is lost, but also the taste of foods is much diminished. Both are gradually lost with aging, but ther...

Landmarks ID'd to orient humerus in elbow arthroplasty

(HealthDay)—The posterior humeral cortical line (PCL) is better than the transepicondylar axis (TEA) as a reference point and reproducible landmark for orienting the humerus during elbow arthroplast...

Integra LifeSciences Expands Shoulder Product Line With the Introduction of a Proximal Humeral Fracture Plate System

PLAINSBORO, N.J., March 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq:IART) today announced that the Integra® Proximal Humeral Fracture Plate System received 510k cl...

Orthofix International Announces International Launch of Contours PHP™ (Proximal Humeral Plate)

Orthofix International N.V., (NASDAQ:OFIX) (the Company) announced its launch of the Contours PHP™ (Proximal Humeral Plate) through the Company’s International Orthopedic dist...

Orthofix introduces plating system for treating proximal humeral fractures

Orthofix International through its international orthopedic distribution network has introduced a new plating system for the treatment of proximal humeral fractures.

'Capture The Fracture' Report Calls For Implementation Of Coordinator-Based Systems Of Post-Fracture Care

A newly released IOF report for World Osteoporosis Day, 'Capture the Fracture - A global campaign to break the fragility fracture cycle', clearly outlines the care gap which is leaving millions of fra...

New Treatment Options for Patients With Shoulder Pain Discussed at Seminars in Chicago's Western Suburbs

BOLINGBROOK, Ill., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  People who struggle to reach up high, comb their hair and sleep at night because of shoulder pain can benefit from a series of free, informationa...

Bone: New guidelines for multistep fracture prevention in men

Study of the efficacy of fracture prevention approaches has been neglected in men, in comparison with women. Guidelines from the Endocrine Society for the management of osteoporosis and fracture risk...

Arthroplasty wound complications linked to oral anticoagulant use

Multicenter research suggests that recovery from hip or knee arthroplasty may be significantly affected by choice of pharmaceutical thromboprophylaxis.

The use of the Lima reverse shoulder arthroplasty for the treatment of fracture sequelae of the proximal humerus.

BACKGROUND: Experience treating proximal humerus fracture sequelae with reverse total shoulder arthroplasty is limited. We report our results....

Surgical Technique: The Anterosuperior Approach for Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty.

BACKGROUND: The anterosuperior approach used for reverse shoulder arthroplasty is an intermediate between the transacromial approach originally proposed by Paul Grammont and the anterosuperior approac...

Hemiarthroplasty for Three- and Four-part Proximal Humerus Fractures.

Displaced three- and four-part proximal humerus fractures are among the most challenging shoulder conditions to manage. Because of the risk of symptomatic malunion, nonunion, and humeral head osteonec...

Metaversion can reliably predict humeral head version: A computed tomography-based validation study.

HYPOTHESIS: Circumstances occur when the determination of anatomic humeral head version is difficult. In the setting of irreparable proximal humeral fracture, there are few reliable intraoperative lan...

A quantitative method for determining medial migration of the humeral head after shoulder arthroplasty: Preliminary results in assessing glenoid wear at a minimum of two years after hemiarthroplasty with concentric glenoid reaming.

HYPOTHESIS: Glenoid erosion and medial migration of the humeral head prosthesis have been observed after most types of shoulder arthroplasty. A method of measuring the change in humeral head position...