Outcome of surgical reconstruction after traumatic total brachial plexus palsy

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 1505-1512

  Dodakundi, Chaitanya ^a   Doi, Kazuteru ^a   Hattori, Yasunori ^a   Sakamoto, Soutetsu ^a   Fujihara, Yuki ^a   Takagi, Takehiko ^a   Fukuda, Makoto ^a  

^a Ogori Daiichi General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITIES OF THE ARM, SHOULDER AND HAND (SCORE); DISABILITY; DOUBLE FREE MUSCLE TRANSFER; ELBOW; ELBOW EXTENSION; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FINGER; FOLLOW UP; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANGE OF MOTION; REHABILITATION CARE; REINNERVATION; ROTATION; SHORT FORM 36; SHOULDER; SHOULDER ABDUCTION; SHOULDER EXTERNAL ROTATION; SHOULDER FLEXION; SHOULDER ROTATION ARC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHY; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARALYSIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84887218337     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.K.01279     Document Type: Article

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