A Case of Peripheral Neuropathy From Contact With Military Radar Equipment

Complex early and late neuropathies resulting from direct and conductive electrical patterns of injury are disabling and extremely challenging to manage. We report a patient who suffered acute onset of right-hand weakness and decreased sensation following a radar equipment–related electrical injury....

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Autores principales: Tenenhaus, Mayer, Potenza, Bruce, Li, Andrew
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Open Science Company, LLC 2009
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Journal Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2796565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20076783
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description Complex early and late neuropathies resulting from direct and conductive electrical patterns of injury are disabling and extremely challenging to manage. We report a patient who suffered acute onset of right-hand weakness and decreased sensation following a radar equipment–related electrical injury. He received a carpal and Guyon tunnel release, regaining sensation and strength to his right hand by the first postoperative day.
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spelling pubmed-27965652010-01-14 A Case of Peripheral Neuropathy From Contact With Military Radar Equipment Tenenhaus, Mayer Potenza, Bruce Li, Andrew Eplasty Journal Article Complex early and late neuropathies resulting from direct and conductive electrical patterns of injury are disabling and extremely challenging to manage. We report a patient who suffered acute onset of right-hand weakness and decreased sensation following a radar equipment–related electrical injury. He received a carpal and Guyon tunnel release, regaining sensation and strength to his right hand by the first postoperative day. Open Science Company, LLC 2009-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2796565/ /pubmed/20076783 Text en Copyright © 2009 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article whereby the authors retain copyright of the work. The article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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