Early effects of muscle atrophy on shoulder joint development in infants with unilateral birth brachial plexus injury

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-178

  Van Gelein Vitringa, Valerie M ^a   Jaspers, Richard ^b   Mullender, Margriet ^a   Ouwerkerk, Willem J ^a   Van Der Sluijs, Johannes A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELTOID MUSCLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOULDER DISEASE; SUBLUXATION;

BIRTH INJURIES; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CONTRACTURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMERES; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 78751539149     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03783.x     Document Type: Article

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