“…Many operative techniques and fixation methods have been used to treat displaced proximal humeral fractures [2,4,6,8,9,11,13,14,16,19,20,21]. Current trends in surgical technique for four-part "valgus impacted" fractures include limiting soft tissue dissection around the fracture fragments, reduction of the head to its anatomical position, and minimally invasive osteosynthesis [10,12,[17][18][19]22].…”