Variations of the course of the upper trunk of the brachial plexus and their clinical significance for the thoracic outlet syndrome: A study on 93 cadavers

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 188-192

  Natsis, Konstantinos ^a   Totlis, Trifon ^a   Tsikaras, Prokopios ^a   Anastasopoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Skandalakis, Panagiotis ^b   Koebke, Juergen ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CADAVER; HUMAN; SURGICAL APPROACH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX OUTLET SYNDROME; ADULT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME;

EID: 33645293501     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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