Nerve transfers in children with traumatic partial brachial plexus injuries

Microsurgery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 117-120

  Goubier, Jean Noël ^a   Teboul, Frédéric ^a   Papadogeorgou, Ellada ^a  

^a International Center of Hand Surgery   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRACHIALIS MUSCLE; CASE REPORT; ELBOW FLEXION; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR NERVE;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CHILD; ELBOW JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MICROSURGERY; NERVE TRANSFER; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER JOINT; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 41149180105     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20461     Document Type: Article

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