Outcome after delayed oberlin transfer in brachial plexus injury

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 822-827

  Sedain, Gopal ^a   Sharma, Manish Singh ^a   Sharma, Bhawani Shankar ^a   Mahapatra, Ashok Kumar ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Brachial plexus; Injury; Musculocutaneous nerve; Nerve transfer; Outcome; Ulnar nerve

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; OBERLIN TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; ULNAR NERVE;

ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053636402     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31822848eb     Document Type: Article

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