Treatment of proximal humerus fractures in geriatric patients - Can pathological DEXA results help to guide the indication for allograft augmentation?

Sascha Halvachizadeh; Till Berk; Thomas Rauer; Christian Hierholzer; Roman Pfeifer; Hans-Christoph Pape; Florin Allemann

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0230789

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Treatment of proximal humerus fractures in geriatric patients - Can pathological DEXA results help to guide the indication for allograft augmentation?

Sascha Halvachizadeh ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: sascha.halvachizadeh@usz.ch

Affiliation Department of Trauma, University Zurich, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1393-3232

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Till Berk,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Trauma, University Zurich, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Thomas Rauer,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Trauma, University Zurich, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Christian Hierholzer,

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Trauma, University Zurich, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Roman Pfeifer,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Trauma, University Zurich, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Hans-Christoph Pape,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Trauma, University Zurich, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Florin Allemann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Trauma, University Zurich, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0479-2810

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Treatment of proximal humerus fractures in geriatric patients - Can pathological DEXA results help to guide the indication for allograft augmentation?

Sascha Halvachizadeh,
Till Berk,
Thomas Rauer,
Christian Hierholzer,
Roman Pfeifer,
Hans-Christoph Pape,
Florin Allemann

Published: April 9, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230789

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