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ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2022

Efficacy of Intramedullary Nailing in the Treatment of Comminuted Proximal Humeral Fractures and Its Influence on Shoulder Joint Function Recovery.

Weibin Lan, Feibin Xie, Wutang Que, Xuezhao Tu, Xiaomeng Wang

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Article in Journal of healthcare engineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Weibin LanDepartment of Orthopedics, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan 364000, Fujian, China.
Feibin XieDepartment of Orthopedic Trauma, Xiamen University Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen 361004, Fujian, China.
Wutang QueDepartment of Orthopedics, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan 364000, Fujian, China.
Xuezhao TuDepartment of Orthopedics, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan 364000, Fujian, China.
Xiaomeng WangDepartment of Orthopedics, Longyan First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Longyan 364000, Fujian, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8962-8122
Fujian Medical University · CNZhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we have aimed to elucidate the therapeutic effect of intramedullary nailing (IMN) in treating comminuted proximal humeral fractures (CPHFs) and its influence on the recovery of shoulder joint function. For this purpose, 60 cases with CPHFs were selected, particularly from January 2020 to October 2021. In these cases, 28 cases were treated with a locking proximal humeral plate (LPHP) and assigned to the control (Con) group and the remaining 32 patients were treated with IMN and included in the research (Res) group. The therapeutic effect, surgical indicators, total complications, visual analogue scale (VAS) score, and postoperative shoulder joint function score were compared between the two arms. We observed that compared with the Con group, the effective rate in the Res group was higher while the operation time, intraoperative blood loss, and fracture healing time were shorter, the overall complication rate and VAS score were lower, and the postoperative shoulder joint function score was higher, all with statistical significance. The above results indicate that IMN is effective and safe in the treatment of CPHFs, which can validly reduce the discomfort of patients and facilitate the recovery of shoulder joint function.

Indexed as

Fracture Fixation, IntramedullaryFractures, ComminutedHumeral FracturesShoulder FracturesShoulder JointHumansRecovery of FunctionTreatment Outcome

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PMID35222890
PMCPMC8865999
OpenAlexW4213043469

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