Isolated compression of the pectoral nerve resulting in atrophy of the major pectoral muscle

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 760-763

  Gardetto, Alexander ^a   Thaler, Claudia ^a   Kiechl, Stefan ^a   Maurer, Herbert ^b   Piza Katzer, Hildegunde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Compression; Major pectoral muscle; Pectoral nerve; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PECTORAL MUSCLE; PECTORAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ATROPHY; CADAVER; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; THORACIC NERVES;

EID: 0345306339     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10467     Document Type: Article

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