Proximal humeral shaft fractures are rare injury. In such case, to the best of our knowledge, the treatment by both double-plate method and the MIPO has never been seen before in the literature. Here we report our experience and management about this method. A 69-year-old man who suffered falling down at home to his right shoulder that resulted in co-existing fractures of the proximal humerus and humeral shaft. According to AO/ASIF classification, he had 11-B1 and 12-A1 fractures ipsilaterally. He was treated by double plate method with PHILOS (SYNTHES, Japan) to proximal humerus and narrow LC-LCP(SYNTHES, Japan) to humeral shaft. Intraoperatively we put the skin incision about 3.0 cm each in three places, for reduction and fixation by the MIPO. Postoperatively, external fixation was only sling and physiotherapy was initiated after third post-operative days for range of motion exercises.Introduction
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