title: Complex traumatic-degenerative injury of the proximal metaepiphysis of the humerus.
abstract: The authors describe one case of displaced fracture of the proximal third of the humerus with high-grade degenerative arthropathy in the humeral head and in the glenoid surface on a humerus that had previously been treated thirty years earlier with a Delitala intramedullary nail for diaphyseal fracture.
authors.affiliation: Centro di Chirurgia della Spalla, Villa Serena, Forlì.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Porcellini
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Campi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piu
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Paladini
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001168:Arthritis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery*; D019643:Arthroplasty, Replacement; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005594:Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D006810:Humeral Fractures / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007595:Joint Prosthesis; D008297:Male; D012785:Shoulder Joint; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed