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The epidemiology of traumatic humeral shaft fractures in Taiwan
- Source :
- International Orthopaedics. 33:463-467
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2008.
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Abstract
- We retrospectively analysed 106 consecutive traumatic humeral shaft fractures over a five-year period. The mechanism of injury, age, gender, fracture types, associated injury and the presence of injury to the radial nerve were reviewed. The incidence was about 10 per 100,000 per year; most were closed fractures in young males which had been sustained as a result of traffic accidents. The age–gender distribution was characterised by gradually increased incidence from the fifth decade in women, while it reached a peak at the third decade and decreased after the fifth decade in men. The results revealed different epidemiological features from previous studies. The epidemiology differs between ethnicity and country, and updating the epidemiological features of humeral shaft fractures may provide information for appropriate treatment programmes. This study documents the epidemiology of humeral shaft fracture in Taiwan, probably for the first time in this Asian community.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Humeral Fractures
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Adolescent
Taiwan
Fractures, Open
Young Adult
Closed Fracture
Age Distribution
Injury Severity Score
Epidemiology
Odds Ratio
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Humerus
Fractures, Closed
Sex Distribution
Child
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Aged, 80 and over
Fracture Healing
Original Paper
Multiple Trauma
business.industry
Incidence
Incidence (epidemiology)
Retrospective cohort study
Odds ratio
Middle Aged
Surgery
Radiography
Logistic Models
medicine.anatomical_structure
Multivariate Analysis
Orthopedic surgery
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14325195 and 03412695
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Orthopaedics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....be52358b9c1b9d7d9f2b4607f95ab1ef