The breathing hand: Obstetric brachial plexopathy reinnervation from thoracic roots?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 158-160

  Friedenberg, S M ^a   Hermann, R C ^b  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; LABOR COMPLICATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE ROOT; NERVE SURGERY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSTETRIC BRACHIAL PLEXOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; SYNKINESIS; THORAX;

BIRTH INJURIES; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CHILD; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLES; NERVE REGENERATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATION;

EID: 0347755522     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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