Targon PH+ Follow-Up

Launched by AESCULAP AG · Jul 18, 2016

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Eligibility criteria

• • Inclusion Criteria: - patients with a three- or four-fragment-fracture of the proximal humerus, with dislocation on X-ray
• • older than 60 years of age
• • written and signed patient consent
• • Exclusion Criteria: - Fractures more than 14 days old
• • multiple comorbidity
• • multitrauma (Injury Severity Score \> 15)
• • prev. surgery on the injured shoulder
• • severely deranged function caused by a previous disease head-split proximal humerus fracture
• • combined humerus head and shaft fractures
• • pseudarthroses
• • crushed head cap of the humerus head (AO 11 C3 fractures)
• • isolated avulsion fracture of a tuberosity
• • unwillingness or inability to follow protocol instructions and study requirements (follow-up visits)
• • no signed informed consent
• • treatment not in line with Instructions for Use (IfU)