Brachial plexus injury: Long-term functional outcome is determined by associated scapulothoracic dissociation

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1021-1025

  Riess, Kevin P ^a   Cogbill, Thomas H ^a   Patel, Nirav Y ^a   Lambert, Pamela J ^a   Mathiason, Michelle A ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus injury; Scapulothoracic dissociation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOULDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCAPULA; THORACIC INJURIES; WISCONSIN; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 36048958184     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000233764.54922.55     Document Type: Article

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