title: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS WITH PROXIMAL HUMERUS FRACTURE TREATED AT HOSPITAL SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the epidemiological aspects of proximal humerus fractures and describe the profile of patients with proximal humerus fractures hospitalized and treated at Hospital São Paulo, between 2008 and 2013.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hospital records were retrospectively analyzed for surgically treated patients diagnosed with proximal humerus fracture. Age, gender, injury mechanism, length of hospital stay, performed treatment and associated diseases were considered.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From all patients studied, 52 were female at their sixth decade of life. As for the injury mechanism, fall from height was the main cause for women (88.46%) and for man it was motorcycle accidents (31.42%). Fixation with locked plate was the most frequently used treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Most patients were female in their fifth decade of life, injured mainly by fall from height. Fixation with locked plate was the most frequently used treatment and the patients were admitted for 7 days, on average. Level of Evidence II, Retrospective Study.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Physiatry Discipline, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Paula Cortes
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Physiatry Discipline, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Mariana Christovam
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Mestieri
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Physiatry Discipline, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: José Carlos Baldocchi
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Pontin
keywords: Epidemiology.; Humeral fractures; Shoulder fractures