[Minimally invasive surgery in diaphyseal humeral fractures with helicoidal plate. One year result in seven patients].
BACKGROUND
The surgical treatment of choice in the first instance before a humeral diaphysis fracture surgery are intramedullary nails. So are simple plates or external fixators that in different studies reported a large percentage of complications.


OBJECTIVE
To implement an alternative system of treatment that shows to be minimal invasive, painless and inexpensive.


METHODS
Applied in 7 patients with a follow-up to a year. The type of study is prospective, cross-sectional observational and descriptive.


RESULTS
The results were no cases of nonunion, no delayed unions or infections, no radial or circumflex nerve injury added postoperatively with a functional restoration of 90% between the 6th and the 8th weeks of the surgery, and a proper consolidation.


CONCLUSIONS
This treatment method proved to be minimally invasive with no extra features in their application with a functional recovery between the 6th and 8th week after surgery. The total cost turned out to be minor in comparison to other surgical methods.
Numbela
Boris Xavier Ortufio
BX
Servicio de Ortopedia, México. borismx@hotmail.com
Aceves
Luis Humberto Vives
LH
González
Alejandro Bello
AB
Castro
Carlos Torres
CT
D001860:Bone Plates; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004867:Equipment Design; D016267:External Fixators; D005260:Female; D005592:Fracture Fixation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D017102:Fracture Healing; D006801:Humans; D006810:Humeral Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D007103:Immobilization; D008297:Male; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D011446:Prospective Studies