Acta Chir Belg
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Surgery for humeral shaft fractures. A series of 78 operative treated humeral shaft fractures was studied retrospectively. Sixteen times we found a radial nerve palsy, preoperatively. ⋯ Because we found nearly always a macroscopically lesion of the nerve in this type of fracture, we recommend an early exploration in spiroid fractures at that junction. For the same reason we advise an early exploration in cases of secondary radial nerve palsy. If no other indication to operate occurs, we accept a conservative treatment of the humeral fracture with radial palsy.