Bionic reconstruction to restore hand function after brachial plexus injury: A case series of three patients

The Lancet

Volumn 385, Issue 9983, 2015, Pages 2183-2189

  Aszmann, Oskar C ^a   Roche, Aidan D ^a   Salminger, Stefan ^a   Paternostro Sluga, Tatjana ^a   Herceg, Malvina ^a   Sturma, Agnes ^a   Hofer, Christian ^a,b   Farina, Dario ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH ARM TEST SCORE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; AVULSION INJURY; BIONIC RECONSTRUCTION; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLIMBING; DISABILITIES OF THE ARM, SHOULDER AND HAND (SCORE); ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HAND AMPUTATION; HAND FUNCTION; HAND PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MECHATRONIC PROSTHESIS; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SOUTHAMPTON HAND ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE SCORE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; AMPUTATION; BIONICS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; CONVALESCENCE; HAND; INJURIES; LIMB PROSTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BIONICS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS NEUROPATHIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930087123     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61776-1     Document Type: Article

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