Bilateral medial pectoral neuropathy in a weight lifter

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1597-1599

  Rossi, Fabian ^a   Triggs, William J ^a   Gonzalez, Ralph ^a   Shafer, Stuart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrapment neuropathy; Medial pectoral neuropathy; Weight lifting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILDING; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPATHY; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT LIFTING;

ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; ATROPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; PECTORALIS MUSCLES; THORACIC NERVES; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0032707210     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199911)22:11<1597::AID-MUS18>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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