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Forearm Shaft Fractures

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The incidence of radius and ulna shaft fractures, including all fractures of the forearm is 5; 19 % proximal radius and ulna (radial head and olecranon) and 76 % are distal radius fractures. The average annual incidence is 91 cases per 100,000 males and 196 cases per 100,000 females.

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  1. General Hospital Celle, Celle, Germany

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  2. University of Zurich Department of Trauma Surgery, Zürich, Switzerland

    Otmar Trentz

  3. Klinische Abt. Allgemeinchirurgie, Medizinische Universität Graz Universitätsklinik für Chirurgie, Graz, Austria

    Selman Uranues

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Oestern, HJ. (2014). Forearm Shaft Fractures. In: Oestern, HJ., Trentz, O., Uranues, S. (eds) Bone and Joint Injuries. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38388-5_12

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