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Video: Selective Neurotization of Radial Nerve Video 2

This is a video of a twenty-five-year-old man who suffered complete brachial plexus avulsion, three years after reinnervation of the suprascapular nerve, axillary nerve, musculocutaneous nerve and the branches to the long head of the triceps brachii, demonstrating shoulder and elbow function.


This information has been taken from Selective Neurotization of the Radial Nerve in the Axilla Using a Full-length Phrenic Nerve to Treat Complete Brachial Plexus Palsy: An Anatomic Study and Case Report. It was submitted by corresponding author Tao Wang, MD, from the Department of Hand Surgery at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, China.

Written by NEUROSURGERY® Editorial Office

June 15, 2011 at 9:00 AM

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