Brachial plexus injury during open heart surgery - Controlled prospective study

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 295-299

  Canbaz, Suat ^a   Turgut, N ^a   Halici, U ^a   Sunar, H ^a   Balci, K ^a   Duran, E ^a  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus injury; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Electrophysiological study; Open heart surgery; Sternal retraction; Sternotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 26944452418     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-865672     Document Type: Article

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