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Isolated proximal lesion of musculocutaneous nerve causes a palsy of main flexors of the elbow (biceps and brachialis anterior muscles) but brachioradialis (innervated by radial nerve), epitroclear, and epicondilar muscles are able to maintain a flexion against gravity. For this reason sometimes diagnosis is neither easy nor early [1].
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Rovesta, C., Marongiu, M.C., Bonanno, G., Celli, A., Celli, L. (2008). Traumatic Isolated Lesions of Musculocutaneous Nerve. In: Treatment of Elbow Lesions. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0591-4_28
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