Clinical imaging · UKMLA & AKT
Humeral shaft fractures
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test. Below are the key points to recognise humeral shaft fractures — the full SA Note notes add investigations, management, complications and 10 practice questions.
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- Radial nerve winds around the posterior humeral shaft in the spiral groove, running medial to lateral
- Middle and distal third junction - nerve pierces lateral intermuscular septum and is most vulnerable to injury
- Holstein-Lewis fracture - spiral fracture at middle/distal third junction; classically associated with radial nerve entrapment
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