Birth lesions of the brachial plexus

Abstract

Some differences between the adult and the neonatal nervous systems; the lesion of the nerve; the central affect; methods of study; incidence, risk factors and natural history; neurophysiological investigations; indications for nerve operations and their results; co contraction; the chief causes of deformity; posterior subluxation and dislocation of the gleno humeral joint; methods and results of operations for reduction of the shoulder; deformities of the elbow and forearm; conclusion. © 2011 Springer-Verlag London Limited.