Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics Main Menu Home Page Nonunion of the humerus. Clinical, roentgenographic, scintigraphic, and response characteristics to treatment with constant direct current stimulation of osteogenesis. The average age of the 46 patients was 55 years. Seventy-one percent of the fractures occurred below the midpoint of the humerus. Electrical stimulation of nonunion of the humerus is not a panacea.
Patient selection is critical.