Detection of nerve rootlet avulsion on CT myelography in patients with birth palsy and brachial plexus injury after trauma

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1283-1287

  Walker, Andrew T ^a   Chaloupka, John C ^a   De Lotbiniere, Alain C J ^a   Wolfe, Scott W ^a   Goldman, Richard ^b   Kier, E Leon ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOCELE; NERVE ROOT; NERVE ROOT INJURY; NEUROLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0029858121     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.167.5.8911196     Document Type: Article

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