Nerve transfers for restoration of upper extremity motor function in a child with upper extremity motor deficits due to transverse myelitis: Case report

Microsurgery

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 64-67

  Dorsi, Michael J ^a   Belzberg, Allan J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IBUPROFEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ABDUCTION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; ELBOW DISEASE; ELBOW FLEXION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MYELITIS; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROSURGERY; NURSEMAID ELBOW; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OTITIS MEDIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; ULNAR NERVE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ACCESSORY NERVE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; NERVE TRANSFER; PARESIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SHOULDER JOINT; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84856045961     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20939     Document Type: Article

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