Combined median and medial antebrachial cutaneous neuropathies: An upper-arm neurovascular syndrome

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 187-191

  Lazaro Blazquez D ^a   Soto, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALGESIA; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH; ARM DISEASE; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOPROSTHESIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKIN NERVE; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AXILLARY ARTERY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MEDIAN NEUROPATHY; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NERVE DEGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SKIN; THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME;

EID: 1942422723     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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