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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2025

Intramedullary Nails vs. Locking Plates for Displaced Proximal Humerus Fractures in Patients over 60: A Comparative Clinical Study.

Marco Simone Vaccalluzzo, Marco Sapienza, Sergio Valenti, Benedetta Di Tomasi, Ludovico Lucenti, Vito Pavone, Gianluca Testa

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Marco Simone VaccalluzzoDepartment of General Surgery and Medical Surgical Specialties, Section of Orthopaedics, A.O.U. Policlinico Rodolico-San Marco, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3058-062X
Marco SapienzaDepartment of General Surgery and Medical Surgical Specialties, Section of Orthopaedics, A.O.U. Policlinico Rodolico-San Marco, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8311-9132
Sergio ValentiDepartment of General Surgery and Medical Surgical Specialties, Section of Orthopaedics, A.O.U. Policlinico Rodolico-San Marco, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Benedetta Di TomasiDepartment of General Surgery and Medical Surgical Specialties, Section of Orthopaedics, A.O.U. Policlinico Rodolico-San Marco, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Ludovico LucentiDepartment of Precision Medicine in Medical, Surgical and Critical Care (Me.Pre.C.C.), University of Palermo, 90133 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9514-9304
Vito PavoneDepartment of General Surgery and Medical Surgical Specialties, Section of Orthopaedics, A.O.U. Policlinico Rodolico-San Marco, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5664-8066
Gianluca TestaDepartment of General Surgery and Medical Surgical Specialties, Section of Orthopaedics, A.O.U. Policlinico Rodolico-San Marco, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5246-9714

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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bone plateshumeral fracturesintramedullary fracture fixationrecovery of functionshoulder fractures

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PMID40648936
PMCPMC12249699

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