The findings in paediatric obstetric brachial palsy differ from those in older patients: A suggested explanation

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 158-161

  Vredeveld, Jan W ^a   Blaauw, Gerhard ^b   Slooff, Bart A C J ^b   Richards, René ^b   Rozeman, Stan C A M ^a  

^a Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

^b Atrium Medisch Centrum Heerlen ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; DENERVATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PARALYSIS, OBSTETRIC;

EID: 0034112843     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162200000281     Document Type: Article

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