Fetal Deformations: A Risk Factor for Obstetrical Brachial Plexus Palsy?

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 246-249

  Alfonso, Israel ^a,b   Diaz Arca, Gemma ^c   Alfonso, Daniel T ^d   Shuhaiber, Hans H ^a   Papazian, Oscar ^a   Price, Andrew E ^a,d   Grossman, John A I ^a,d  

^a Brachial Plexus Center   (United States)

^b MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^d NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EAR MALFORMATION; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; LEG MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NERVE ROOT INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THORAX DEFORMITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UTERUS MALFORMATION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ABNORMALITIES; BIRTH INJURIES; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CAUSALITY; CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33748704464     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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