ReviewJournal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America2023
Management of Pediatric Proximal Humerus Fractures.
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- Conservative Treatment of Pediatric Fractures-Narrative Review of Acceptable Deformity and Remodeling Potential.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Non-Operative vs. Operative Treatment of Pediatric Proximal Humerus Fractures: Surgery Offers No Clinical or Economic Benefit, a Retrospective Study of 152 Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Kapandji-assisted Closed Reduction and Percutaneous K-wire Fixation for Proximal Humerus Fractures in Adolescents: A Technical Note.Revista brasileira de ortopedia · 2024Article
- Open plate fixation in displaced pediatric proximal humerus fractures is safe and leads to very good functional outcomes.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2024Article
- Percutaneous Fixation of Pediatric Proximal Humerus Fractures.Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America · 2023Article
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Abstract
Proximal humerus fractures have an outstanding potential to remodel due to their proximity to the proximal humeral physis. Fractures in young children can be treated nonoperatively with excellent outcomes. The incidence peaks in adolescent patients and these injuries most commonly occur after a fall or direct trauma. The muscle attachments of the proximal humerus act as deforming forces and anatomic structures such as the periosteum and biceps tendon may act as blocks to reduction. Operative management is uniformly indicated for patients with open fractures, ipsilateral elbow or forearm injury, associated neurovascular injury, or poly-trauma patients. Operative treatment may be further considered in older children with minimal growth remaining and with fractures that are considered significantly displaced by available classification systems. Unfortunately, there are significant challenges in recommending treatment based on displacement and age alone. The purpose of this paper is to review what is known about these injuries and how they can be treated in light of current deficiencies in the literature; this may stimulate further work to refine indications for treatment based upon age and displacement.
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