Humerus fracture

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	Humerus fracture;
ICD-10	S42.2-S42.4
ICD-9	812
eMedicine	emerg/199 orthoped/271 orthoped/199

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Mohammadmain Rezazadehsaatlou[2].

Overview

A humerus fracture can be classified by the location of the humerus involved: the upper end, the shaft, or the lower end.

At the upper end, the surgical neck of the humerus^[1] and anatomical neck of humerus^[2] can both be involved, though fractures of the surgical neck are more common. The axillary nerve can be damaged in fractures of this type.