The muscular axillary arch: An anatomic study and clinical considerations

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Rizk, Elias ^a   Harbaugh, Kimberly ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillopectoral muscle; Hyperabduction syndrome; Langer's axillary arch; Neurovascular compression; Thoracic outlet syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY AXILLA MUSCLE; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CADAVER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMERUS; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MUSCLE; MUSCULAR AXILLARY ARCH; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NEUROANATOMY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX OUTLET SYNDROME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; SHOULDER;

EID: 56749100476     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000327033.22066.74     Document Type: Article

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