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Thomas D Tolson1

  • 1Pennsylvania Hand Center, 101 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Suite 300, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, USA. TJTOL@aol.com

Hand Clinics
|March 10, 2004
PubMed

Abstract:

Electrodiagnostic testing is reliable for the diagnosis of TOS. It helps localize and quantify a lesion in the brachial plexus. It is also important to rule out other segmental or systemic neuropathies.

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