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Traumatic Bilateral Brachial Plexus Injury

Traumatic brachial plexus injuries are serious, life-changing injuries that are becoming more common worldwide. A thorough physical examination, as well as radiologic and electrodiagnostic tests, are all part of the initial evaluation. Parameters such as injury patterns, the timing of intervention,...

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Autores principales: Kokkalis, Zinon, Papagiannis, Spyridon, Kouzelis, Antonis, Diamantakis, George, Panagopoulos, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35664378
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24626
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author Kokkalis, Zinon
Papagiannis, Spyridon
Kouzelis, Antonis
Diamantakis, George
Panagopoulos, Andreas
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description Traumatic brachial plexus injuries are serious, life-changing injuries that are becoming more common worldwide. A thorough physical examination, as well as radiologic and electrodiagnostic tests, are all part of the initial evaluation. Parameters such as injury patterns, the timing of intervention, patients' expectations, and pre-injury functional level should always be considered. A bilateral brachial plexus injury is a very uncommon occurrence. To our knowledge, only one case of a bilateral brachial plexus injury associated with trauma has been published in recent literature. We present a rare case of a 19-year-old man who sustained a bilateral brachial plexus injury after a motorbike accident. The patient underwent exploration of the left brachial plexus and a modified Oberlin procedure on his left arm. The right plexus injury was managed conservatively. After a follow-up period of 12 months, the patient completely returned to his previous functional level.
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spelling pubmed-91509212022-06-02 Traumatic Bilateral Brachial Plexus Injury Kokkalis, Zinon Papagiannis, Spyridon Kouzelis, Antonis Diamantakis, George Panagopoulos, Andreas Cureus Orthopedics Traumatic brachial plexus injuries are serious, life-changing injuries that are becoming more common worldwide. A thorough physical examination, as well as radiologic and electrodiagnostic tests, are all part of the initial evaluation. Parameters such as injury patterns, the timing of intervention, patients' expectations, and pre-injury functional level should always be considered. A bilateral brachial plexus injury is a very uncommon occurrence. To our knowledge, only one case of a bilateral brachial plexus injury associated with trauma has been published in recent literature. We present a rare case of a 19-year-old man who sustained a bilateral brachial plexus injury after a motorbike accident. The patient underwent exploration of the left brachial plexus and a modified Oberlin procedure on his left arm. The right plexus injury was managed conservatively. After a follow-up period of 12 months, the patient completely returned to his previous functional level. Cureus 2022-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9150921/ /pubmed/35664378 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24626 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kokkalis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kokkalis, Zinon
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Kouzelis, Antonis
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Panagopoulos, Andreas
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title Traumatic Bilateral Brachial Plexus Injury
title_full Traumatic Bilateral Brachial Plexus Injury
title_fullStr Traumatic Bilateral Brachial Plexus Injury
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title_short Traumatic Bilateral Brachial Plexus Injury
title_sort traumatic bilateral brachial plexus injury
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35664378
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.24626
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