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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 HalvachizadehTill BerkThomas RauerChristian HierholzerRoman PfeiferHans-Christoph PapeFlorin Allemann
Published in: PloS one (2020)
In patients with allograft augmentation and severe osteopenia, similar clinical and radiological results were obtained when compared with patients with better preoperative bone density scores (T-scores, DEXA). In view of a lack of guidelines indicating the indication for the use of allograft, this difference may be worth further study.
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