Post-cervical decompression parsonage-turner syndrome represents a subset of C5 palsy: Six cases and a review of the literature: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Brown, Justin M ^a   Yee, Andrew ^a   Ivens, Renee A ^a   Dribben, William ^a   MacKinnon, Susan E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C5 palsy; Cervical decompression complication; Nerve transfers; Neuralgic amyotrophy; Parsonage Turner syndrome; Postoperative weakness; Reconstructive neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NECK PAIN; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NEURALGIC AMYOTROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARALYSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; TURNER SYNDROME; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEURITIS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 78650444448     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181f8254b     Document Type: Review

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