Surgical treatment of traumatic lesions of the axillary nerve: A retrospective study of 33 cases

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-18

  Wehbe, Joseph W ^a,c   Maalouf, Ghassan ^a,c   Habanbo, Joseph ^c   Chidiac, Rita Maria ^b,c   Braun, Emanuel ^d   Merle, Michel ^a,d  

^a Department of Orthopaedic Surgery ^*  (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

^c SAINT GEORGE HOSPITAL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Lebanon)

^d Ctr Hospitalier Univ de Nancy   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMIOCLAVICULAR DISLOCATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE GRAFT; NEUROLYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROBABILITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOULDER; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542318373     PISSN: 00016462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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