Electrodiagnosis in the management of brachial plexus surgery
V Deletis1, N Morota, I R Abbott
1Department of Anesthesiology, New York University Medical Center, New York, USA.
Hand Clinics
|November 1, 1995
Abstract:
A few pre and intraoperative neurophysiological tests offer valuable information in the diagnosis and functional evaluation of brachial plexus injury. The tests and the questions they answer can guide the surgeon's decision about whether to perform neurolysis or an interpositional graft.
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