Evaluation of Treatment of Fractures of the Humerus With a Plate.

Evaluation of the Winsta PH Osteosynthesis Device in the Treatment of Three- and Four-Part Fractures of the Proximal Humerus A Prospective Migration and Bone Density Study

The purpose of this study is to study with the use of clinical and radiological parameters the treatment of three-part and four-part fractures with the Winsta PH osteosynthesis device (Fischer Medical).

We shall measure the following clinical parameters with the help of the Constant Shoulder Score (CSS) and Western Ontario Osteoarthritis of the Shoulder Index (WOOS):

1. Pain
2. Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
3. Range of Motion (ROM)
4. Muscle strength

We shall measure the following radiologic parameters:

1. Healing (migration) of tuberculum majus and minus measured with use of MB-RSA
2. Plate migration with use of MB-RSA
3. Bone density in the proximal humerus measured with Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA)
4. Correlation between bone density and prosthesis migration (and tuberculum migration)

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with three-part and four-part proximal humeral fractures
2. Aged 50 years or older and fit
3. Informed, written consent
4. A functioning shoulder preoperatively -

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients found unsuitable preoperatively for a shoulder Philos Plate
2. Patients aged 85 or older
3. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis
4. Patients who previously had undergone shoulder plastic or other major shoulder surgery
5. Patients unable to avoid NSAID after surgery
6. Patients requiring regular systemic steroid treatment
7. Female patients taking hormone substitution
8. Female patients in the fertile age range who do not use safe anti-conception (oral contraception, intrauterine devices, depot gestagens, vaginal hormone rings)
9. Patients with metabolic bone disease -