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Bilateral elbow flexion reconstruction with functioning free muscle transfer for obstetric brachial plexus palsy
A S Baliarsing1, K Doi, Y Hattori
1Department of Orthopaedics, Ogori Daiichi General Hospital, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
Journal of Hand Surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|October 9, 2002
Abstract:
A child suffered a bilateral obstetric brachial plexus palsy involving the C5 and C6 nerve roots. Abduction of the shoulder joints had recovered by 1 year, but elbow flexion did not recover on either side. Free gracilis muscle transfers were performed on both sides, at an interval of 6 months, to achieve elbow flexion. The spinal accessory nerve was used as the donor nerve.

