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Treatment of Elbow Lesions pp 305–313Cite as

The Traumatic Nerve-Vascular Lesions

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The elbow represents an important point of passage between vascular (brachial artery) and nervous (median, radial, and ulnar nerve) structures, susceptible to direct trauma when there is intra-articular trauma to an elbow.

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    Roberto Adani

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    Giovanni Leo & Luigi Tarallo

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Adani, R., Leo, G., Tarallo, L. (2008). The Traumatic Nerve-Vascular Lesions. In: Treatment of Elbow Lesions. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0591-4_29

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