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Birth Lesions of the Brachial Plexus

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Some differences between the adult and the neonatal nervous systems; the lesion of the nerve; the central affect; methods of study; incidence, risk factors and natural history; neurophysiological investigations; indications for nerve operations and their results; co contraction; the chief causes of deformity; posterior subluxation and dislocation of the gleno humeral joint; methods and results of operations for reduction of the shoulder; deformities of the elbow and forearm; conclusion.

Rolfe Birch M. Chir, FRCP&S (Glas), FRCS (Edin), FRCS (Eng) by election Professor in Neurological Orthopaedic Surgery, University College, London

Visiting Professor, Department of Academic Neurology, Imperial College, London

Honorary Orthopaedic Consultant, Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street, London

The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London

Raigmore Hospital, Inverness

Honorary Orthopaedic Surgeon to the Royal Navy

Consultant in Charge, War Nerve Injuries Clinic at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court, Leatherhead, Surrey

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  • Online ISBN: 978-1-84882-108-8

  • eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)

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