Functional results of hemi- and total shoulder arthroplasty according to diagnosis and patient age at surgery

Background and purpose — There is a lack of information on any associations between the functional outcome and age and diagnosis in patients who have undergone shoulder arthroplasty. We therefore evaluated the functional outcome in “young” and “old” patients treated with either hemiarthroplasty (HA)...

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Main Authors: Boris Sowa, Heidi Thierjung, Matthias Bülhoff, Markus Loew, Felix Zeifang, Thomas Bruckner, Patric Raiss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-05-01
Series:Acta Orthopaedica
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17453674.2017.1280656