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Incidence of clinically evident isolated axillary nerve injury in 869 primary anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasties without routine identification of the axillary nerve

BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that, during primary shoulder arthroplasty, surgeons should identify the axillary nerve through direct visualization, palpation, or the “tug test” to prevent iatrogenic nerve injury. Our goal was to document the rate of isolated axillary nerve injury (IANI) in patie...

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Autores principales: LiBrizzi, Christa L., Rojas, Jorge, Joseph, Jacob, Bitzer, Alexander, McFarland, Edward G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6444175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984892
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jses.2018.12.002