Response to letter to the editor on: "Open plate fixation versus nailing for humeral shaft fractures: a meta-analysis and systematic review of randomised clinical trials and observational studies"

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Spitalstrasse 16, 6000, Lucerne, Switzerland. frank.beeres@luks.ch.
• ² Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Spitalstrasse 16, 6000, Lucerne, Switzerland.
• ³ Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• ⁴ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School Orthopedic Trauma Initiative, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Boston, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Department of Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland.