Iatrogenic long thoracic nerve injury and scapular winging in posterior spinal fusion surgery: A case report

This is an extremely rare case of scapular winging following posterior spinal fusion for correction of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in an 18‐year‐old boy due to iatrogenic injury to a long thoracic nerve. Scapular winging manifested 5 days after the operation and spontaneously improved after 7 mo...

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Autores principales: Shakery, Mohammadreza, Ghandhari, Hasan, Mahdavi, Seyed Mani, Chehrassan, Mohammadreza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9043718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35498343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5746
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Sumario:This is an extremely rare case of scapular winging following posterior spinal fusion for correction of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in an 18‐year‐old boy due to iatrogenic injury to a long thoracic nerve. Scapular winging manifested 5 days after the operation and spontaneously improved after 7 months.

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