Lower Ulnar Nerve Palsy Related to Fracture of the Pisiform Bone in Patients with Multiple Injuries

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 364-368

  Matsunaga, Daigo ^a   Uchiyama, Shigeharu ^a   Nakagawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Toriumi, Hiroshi ^a   Kamimura, Mikio ^a   Miyasaka, Tadaatsu ^a  

^a Suwa Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE; CASE REPORT; FALLING; FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NERVE COMPRESSION; PISIFORM BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULNAR NERVE PARALYSIS; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036687689     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200208000-00030     Document Type: Article

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