Injury
Volume 41, Issue 6 , Pages 606-612 , June 2010

Functional outcome of shoulder hemiarthroplasty for fractures: A multicentre analysis

  • Falk Reuther

      Affiliations

    • Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, DRK Hospital Berlin-Köpenick, Salvador Allende Strasse 2-8, D-12559 Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: DRK Kliniken Berlin-Köpenick, Klinik für Unfallchirurgie und Orthopädie, Salvador Allende Strasse 2-8, D-12559 Berlin, Germany. Tel.: +49 3030353312; fax: +49 3030353308.
    • ,
  • Bernd Mühlhäusler

      Affiliations

    • Klinikum Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Ditfurter Weg 24, D-06484 Quedlinburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Diethard Wahl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, DRK Hospital Berlin-Köpenick, Salvador Allende Strasse 2-8, D-12559 Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Stefaan Nijs

      Affiliations

    • University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Trauma Surgery, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium

,Accepted 30 November 2009.

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PII: S0020-1383(09)00638-X

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.11.019

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