title: [The treatment of loose diaphyseal fractures of the humeral diaphysis using the hanging cast method].
abstract: A personal series of loose diaphyseal fractures of the humeral diaphysis, treated with the hanging plaster case method, has been examined in order to assess results. These were positive in most treated cases, with a complication percentage comparable to that obtainable with other methods. Although it is not considered that the usual treatment of reduction and plaster cast thoraco-brachial immobilisation should be abandoned, it is considered that the hanging cast is an equally valid alternative in all cases in which the patient's general condition represents a contraindication to the application of a bulky chest-extended cast.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002370:Casts, Surgical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006810:Humeral Fractures / Q000628:therapy*; D006811:Humerus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography
vernacular_title: Sul trattamento delle fratture diafisarie scomposte della diafisi omerale col metodo gel gesso pendente.