Surgical Management of Proximal Humeral Fractures Using the Hackethal (Zifko) Method - A Case Review

Abstract

The paper deals with the possibility of minimal operation treatment of proximal humerus fractures. It is retrospective descriptive study of the set of 87 patients operated on by this method within the years 2001-2005.

Keywords

• proximal humeral fractures
• intramedullary Kirschner wires
• minimal invasive osteosynthesis