Perinatal brachial plexus palsy

Current Opinion in Orthopaedics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 202-209

  Dodds, Seth D ^a   Wolfe, Scott W ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Yale Combined Brachial Plexus Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MYELOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0033943910     PISSN: 10419918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001433-200006000-00008     Document Type: Review

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