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1. The aetiology of brachial plexus injury: What the paediatrician and obstetrician need to know

This article discusses the aetiology of brachial plexus injury: What the paediatrician and obstetrician need to know

Abstract:

The recognition of brachial plexus injury (BPI) after childbirth suggests to parents a causative rather than temporal relationship. This view is supported by textbooks of paediatrics, which state that: 1. "the mechanism of injury (....) is a forceful separation of the head from the shoulder by lateral bending of the neck with simultaneous shoulder depression, during vaginal more...

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Republic of Ireland

Irish Medical Journal, Vol: 99 Page: 2006
C. S. O'Gorman; M. B. O'Neill

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