Factors Related to the Psychosocial Functioning of Youth With Neonatal Brachial Plexus Injuries

Brachial plexus injuries.

Injuries to the brachial plexus are common and are the most severe of all lesions of peripheral nerves, but the last 25 years have seen considerable advances in treatment. Much of this improvement followed the restatement of surgical principles regarding the treatment of wounds, and the application of methods of diagnosis and techniques of nerve repair which had been established much earlier. I...

Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus Injuries.

Factors affecting the prognosis of brachial plexus injuries.

The clinical results in a series of 131 patients with 134 brachial plexus injuries were analysed to determine the factors affecting prognosis. Isolated injuries to the upper trunk had the best prognosis, but the prognoses of isolated injuries to the cords, upper roots and lower trunk were not as good. Complete injuries of the plexus had the worst prognosis. Pain which persisted for more than si...

Management of brachial plexus injuries.

Most brachial plexus lesions are traction injuries sustained during birth, but in adolescents and older people they are usually caused by traffic accidents or following a fall in the home. A minority are the result of penetrating injury after civilian assault or trauma encountered during wartime. Birth palsy cases (obstetric brachial plexus palsy) and the remaining cases (traumatic briachial pl...

The Role of MRI in the Diagnosis of Post-sternotomy Injuries of the Brachial Plexus

Brachial Plexus Injury (BPI) is an uncommon complication of median sternotomy capable of causing a permanent or transitory sensitivity and/or motor function impairment in the upper limbs. During a cardiac surgery through sternotomy, for the assessment of the thoracic cage configuration and the site of mediastinal structures, a broader surgical field may be required. If the sternal retractors ar...