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Intraoperative radial nerve injury during coronary artery surgery – report of two cases

BACKGROUND: Peripheral nerve injury and brachial plexopathy are known, though rare complications of coronary artery surgery. The ulnar nerve is most frequently affected, whereas radial nerve lesions are much less common accounting for only 3% of such intraoperative injuries. CASE PRESENTATIONS: Two...

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Autores principales: Papadopoulou, Marianna, Spengos, Konstantinos, Papapostolou, Apostolos, Tsivgoulis, Georgios, Karandreas, Nikolaos
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1697803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17147818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7221-1-7