Metabolic changes in the spinal cord after brachial plexus root re-implantation

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 118-124

  Kachramanoglou, Carolina ^a   De Vita, Enrico ^a,b   Thomas, David L ^a   Wheeler Kingshott, Claudia A M ^a   Balteau, Evelyne ^c   Carlstedt, Thomas ^d   Choi, David ^a   Thompson, Alan J ^a   Ciccarelli, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brachial plexus avulsion; brachial plexus reimplantation; magnetic resonance spectroscopy; spinal cord trauma

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REIMPLANTATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL ROOT; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREATINE; HUMANS; INOSITOL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOCREATINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADICULOPATHY; REPLANTATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 84871662654     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968312457825     Document Type: Article

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