Clinical assessment, MRI, and EMG in congenital brachial plexus palsy

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 705-710

  Yilmaz, Kutluhan ^a   Çalişkan, Mine ^a   Öge, Emre ^b   Aydinli, Nur ^a   Tunaci, Mehtap ^c   Özmen, Meral ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Institute of Child Health ^*  (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MENINGOCELE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; BRAIN EDEMA; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOCELE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROGNOSIS; RADICULOPATHY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344563579     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(99)00073-9     Document Type: Article

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