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  1. Many surgical techniques are available for bridging peripheral nerve defects. Autologous nerve grafts are the current gold standard for most clinical conditions. In selected cases, alternative types of conduit...

    Authors: Stefano Geuna, Pierluigi Tos, Paolo Titolo, Davide Ciclamini, Teresa Beningo and Bruno Battiston
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2014 9:3
  2. In this study an unusual combination of arterial, venous and neural variations discovered during dissection of cervical, axillary and brachial area of a cadaver is described. Variations are thoroughly describe...

    Authors: Theodore G Troupis, Adamantios Michalinos, Vasiliki Manou, Dimitrios Vlastos, Elizabeth O Johnson, Theano Demesticha and Panayiotis Skandalakis
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2014 9:2
  3. Post-traumatic lumbosacral plexus injuries seem to be rare events, spontaneously recovering in high percentage: as surgery is often challenging and results in poor outcome, many Authors have advocated conserva...

    Authors: Debora Garozzo, Gianluca Zollino and Stefano Ferraresi
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2014 9:1
  4. Brachial plexus schwannomas are rare tumors. They are benign nerve sheath tumors and only about 5% of Schwannoma arise from the brachial plexus. They pose a great challenge to surgeons due to their rare occurr...

    Authors: Mamoon Rashid, Omer Salahuddin, Shumaila Yousaf, Uzair A Qazi and Kanwal Yousaf
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2013 8:12
  5. Many disorders of the musculoskeletal system are caused by modified net joint forces resulting from individual coping movement strategies of patients suffering from neuromuscular diseases. Purpose of this work...

    Authors: Tim Kleiber, Nikica Popovic, Jörg Bahm and Catherine Disselhorst-Klug
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2013 8:10
  6. The nerve root avulsion injury causes decrease of motor neurons in the spinal ventral horn. To investigate the motoneuron death after avulsion injury in rats, the intradural root avulsion procedure is usually ...

    Authors: Takashi Noguchi, Souichi Ohta, Ryosuke Kakinoki, Yukitoshi Kaizawa and Shuichi Matsuda
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2013 8:8
  7. Various approaches have been developed to treat the progressive shoulder deformity in patients with brachial plexus birth palsy. Reconstructive surgery for this condition consists of complex procedures with a ...

    Authors: Andrew E Price, Marc Fajardo and John AI Grossman
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2013 8:7
  8. Peripheral neuropathies caused by ganglion cysts are rare. They seldom cause serious complications especially in the lower extremities. The case was a 51-year-old woman referred by her physician to the vascula...

    Authors: Raif Ozden, Vedat Uruc, Aydıner Kalacı and Yunus Dogramacı
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2013 8:5
  9. Major peripheral nerve injuries not only result in local deficits but may also cause distal atrophy of target muscles or permanent loss of sensation. Likewise, these injuries have been shown to instigate long-...

    Authors: Rupeng Li, Patrick C Hettinger, Jacques A Machol, Xiping Liu, J B Stephenson, Christopher P Pawela, Ji-Geng Yan, Hani S Matloub and James S Hyde
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2013 8:4
  10. In total brachial plexus preganglionic lesions (C5-C6-C7-C8 and T1) different extraplexual neurotizations are indicated for partial motor function restitution. Mostly for the flexion of the elbow. Neurotizatio...

    Authors: Juan Pablo Cáceres, Santos Palazzi, Jose Luis Palazzi, Manuel Llusá, Sanz M and Varci S
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2013 8:3
  11. A goal of our work was to perform nerve conduction studies (NCSs) of the ulnar nerve focused on the nerve conduction across the elbow on a sufficiently large cohort of healthy subjects in order to generate rel...

    Authors: Edvard Ehler, Petr Ridzoň, Pavel Urban, Radim Mazanec, Marie Nakládalová, Bohumír Procházka, Hana Matulová, Jan Latta and Pavel Otruba
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2013 8:2
  12. Giant or solitary osteochondroma is part of a rare disorder known as synovial osteochondromatosis. It forms part of a spectrum of disease characterized by metaplastic changes within the joint synovium that are...

    Authors: Munnan Al-Najjim, Abubakar Mustafa, Carl Fenton, Syam Morapudi and Mohammad Waseem
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2013 8:1
  13. Shoulder abnormalities are the major cause of morbidity in upper brachial plexus birth palsy (BPBP). We developed a rat model of upper trunk BPBP and compared our findings to previously reported animal models ...

    Authors: Francisco Soldado, David Benito-Castillo, Cesar G Fontecha, Ignasi Barber, Mario Marotta, Sleiman Haddad, Mariano E Menendez, Vasco V Mascarenhas and Scott H Kozin
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2012 7:9
  14. A discussion is presented concerning scoring while assessing shoulder function. Divergence in observation and in interpretation of what is observed may give rise to serious disagreement about indications for s...

    Authors: Gerhard Blaauw and Robert S Muhlig
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2012 7:8
  15. The aim was to evaluate what can be learned from rat models when treating patients suffering from a sciatic nerve injury.

    Authors: Amanda Maripuu, Anders Björkman, Isabella M Björkman-Burtscher, Peter Mannfolk, Gert Andersson and Lars B Dahlin
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2012 7:7
  16. The CMAP (Compound Muscle Action Potential) scan is a non-invasive electrodiagnostic tool, which provides a quick and visual assessment of motor unit potentials as electrophysiological components that together...

    Authors: Ellen M Maathuis, Robert D Henderson, Judith Drenthen, Nicole M Hutchinson, Jasper R Daube, Joleen H Blok and Gerhard H Visser
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2012 7:4
  17. Evaluation of functional and structural recovery after peripheral nerve injury is crucial to determine the therapeutic effect of a nerve repair strategy. In the present study, we examined the relationship betw...

    Authors: Sabien GA van Neerven, Ahmet Bozkurt, Dan Mon O’Dey, Juliane Scheffel, Arne H Boecker, Jan-Philipp Stromps, Sebastian Dunda, Gary A Brook and Norbert Pallua
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2012 7:5
  18. An 11 years old boy came, with complain of mild dysarthria. Examination revealed marked hemiatrophy of left side of the tongue. Five months back he underwent ipsilateral branchial cyst operation. To our knowle...

    Authors: Sudipta Kumer Mukherjee, Chandra Bidhan Gowshami, Abdus Salam, Ruhul Kuddus, Mohshin Ali Farazi and Jahid Baksh
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2012 7:2
  19. Median nerve neuropathy caused by compression from a tumor in the forearm is rare. Cases with anterior wrist ganglion have high recurrence rates despite surgical treatment. Here, we report the recurrence of an...

    Authors: Kiyoshi Okada, Junichi Miyake, Toshiyuki Kataoka, Hisao Moritomo, Tsuyoshi Murase and Hideki Yoshikawa
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2012 7:1
  20. Positive neurotrophic effects of hyperbaric oxygen treatment may be more easily achieved by applying a Perflourocarbon (PFC) emulsion gel to the repair site. PFCs are halogen substituted carbon oils with uniqu...

    Authors: Jonathan Isaacs, Ilvy Friebe, Satya Mallu and Keith Bachman
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2011 6:11
  21. Contralateral C7 nerve transfer has been used in treating brachial plexus avulsion injury since 1986. During the past two and half decades, much has been achieved, yet more needs to be explored. In this review...

    Authors: Cheng-Gang Zhang and Yu-Dong Gu
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2011 6:10
  22. We report the case of a patient who noticed muscle weakness in his left arm 5 years earlier. On examination, a biloculate mass was observed in the left supraclavicular area, and Tinel's sign caused paresthesia...

    Authors: Sho Kohyama, Yuki Hara, Yasumasa Nishiura, Tetsuya Hara, Tanefumi Nakagawa and Naoyuki Ochiai
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2011 6:9
  23. Surgical treatment of neuromas involves excision of neuromas proximally to the level of grossly "normal" fascicles; however, proximal changes at the axonal level may have both functional and therapeutic implic...

    Authors: Jason H Ko, Peter S Kim, Kristina D O’Shaughnessy, Xianzhong Ding, Todd A Kuiken and Gregory A Dumanian
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2011 6:8
  24. Clavicle fractures are frequent injuries in athletes and midshaft clavicle fractures in particular are well-known injuries in Ironman triathletes. In 2000, Auzou et al. described the mechanism leading to an is...

    Authors: Alexander Christoph Rüst, Beat Knechtle, Patrizia Knechtle and Thomas Rosemann
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2011 6:7
  25. In this paper, the acute changes in the compound motor action potential (CMAP) during mechanical stretch were studied in hamster sciatic nerve and compared to the changes that occur during compression.

    Authors: Mark M Stecker, Kelly Baylor, Jacob Wolfe and Matthew Stevenson
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2011 6:4
  26. Accessory Deep Peroneal Nerve (ADPN) is an anatomic variation that can potentially cause disturbance in electrodiagnostic studies. This anomaly could be detected by nerve conduction studies. There are no recen...

    Authors: Seyed Mansoor Rayegani, Elham Daneshtalab, Mohamad Hasan Bahrami, Dariush Eliaspour, Seyed Ahmad Raeissadat, Sajjad Rezaei and Marzieh Babaee
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2011 6:3
  27. We review our experience treating 335 adult patients with supraclavicular brachial plexus injuries over a 7-year period at the University of Southern Santa Catarina, in Brazil. Patients were categorized into 8...

    Authors: Jayme A Bertelli and Marcos F Ghizoni
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2011 6:2
  28. Variations in the branching of posterior cord are important during surgical approaches to the axilla and upper arm, administration of anesthetic blocks, interpreting effects of nervous compressions and in repa...

    Authors: Johnstone M Muthoka, Simeon R Sinkeet, Swaleh H Shahbal, Ludia C Matakwa and Julius A Ogeng’o
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2011 6:1
  29. There is considerable evidence that central nervous system is continuously modulated by activity, behavior and skill acquisition. This study is to examine the reorganization in cortical and subcortical regions...

    Authors: Jifeng Li, Hui Zhao, Pengbo Luo and Yudong Gu
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:18
  30. In our previous study, allogeneic-transplanted peripheral nerve segments preserved for one month in a polyphenol solution at 4°C could regenerate nerves in rodents demonstrated the same extent of nerve regener...

    Authors: Ken Nakayama, Ryosuke Kakinoki, Ryosuke Ikeguchi, Tomoyuki Yamakawa, Soichi Ohta, Satoshi Fujita, Takashi Noguchi, Scott FM Duncan, Suong-Hyu Hyon and Takashi Nakamura
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:17
  31. The etiology of Bell's palsy can vary but anterograde axonal degeneration may delay spontaneous functional recovery leading the necessity of therapeutic interventions. Corticotherapy and/or complementary rehab...

    Authors: Karen F Coracini, Caio J Fernandes, Almir F Barbarini, César M Silva, Rodrigo T Scabello, Gabriela P Oliveira and Gerson Chadi
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:16
  32. Recent findings on the antioxidant effects of pretreatment with α-lipoic acid (α-LA) on the crush injury of rat sciatic nerve confirm the possible usefulness of α-LA administration in humans with peripheral ne...

    Authors: Maurizio Ranieri, Manuela Sciuscio, Annamaria Cortese, Marilena Stasi, Francesco Panza, Marisa Megna, Pietro Fiore and Andrea Santamato
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:15
  33. As neurophysiologic tests may not reveal the extent of brachial plexus injury at the early stage, the role of early radiological work-up has become increasingly important. The aim of the study was to evaluate ...

    Authors: Kasim Abul-Kasim, Clas Backman, Anders Björkman and Lars B Dahlin
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:14
  34. Root avulsion of the brachial plexus causes an oxidative stress reaction in the spinal cord and induces dramatic spinal motoneuron death, while EGb761 is a natural free radical cleaning agent. This study was d...

    Authors: Xiao Cheng, Fo-Lin Liu, Jun Zhang, Lin-Lin Wang, Fang-lan Li, Shu Liu and Li-Hua Zhou
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:12
  35. Local corticosteroid injection for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) provides greater clinical improvement in symptoms one month after injection compared to placebo but significant symptom relief beyond one month h...

    Authors: Paolo Milani, Mauro Mondelli, Federica Ginanneschi, Riccardo Mazzocchio and Alessandro Rossi
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:11
  36. Although the injury to the peripheral nervous system is a common clinical problem, understanding of the role of melatonin in nerve degeneration and regeneration is incomplete.

    Authors: Mehmet Turgut, Süleyman Kaplan, Burçin Zeynep Ünal, Mehmet Bozkurt, Sinan Yürüker, Çigdem Yenisey, Bünyamin Sahin, Yigit Uyanıkgil and Meral Baka
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:10
  37. We hypothesized that a wide range of surgical procedures may be complicated by neuropathies, not just in close proximity but also remote from procedural sites. The aim of this study was to classify post-operat...

    Authors: Shiv Saidha, Jennifer Spillane, Gerard Mullins and Brian McNamara
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:9
  38. From the onset to the chronic phase of spinal cord injury (SCI), peripheral axons and muscles are subjected to abnormal states of activity. This starts with very intense spasms during the first instant of SCI,...

    Authors: Zaghloul Ahmed, Robert Freedland and Andrzej Wieraszko
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:8
  39. Chronic problems from whiplash trauma generally include headache, pain and neck stiffness that may prove refractory to conservative treatment modalities. As has previously been reported, such afflicted patient...

    Authors: N Ake Nystrom, Lloyd P Champagne, Michael Freeman and Elisabet Blix
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:7
  40. The forelimb amputee poses many reconstructive challenges in the clinical setting, and there is a paucity of established surgical models for study. To further elucidate the pathogenic process in amputation neu...

    Authors: Peter S Kim, Jason Ko, Kristina K O'Shaughnessy, Todd A Kuiken and Gregory A Dumanian
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:6
  41. There have been several reports that partial ulnar transfer (PUNT) is preferable for reconstructing elbow flexion in patients with upper brachial plexus injuries (BPIs) compared with intercostal nerve transfer...

    Authors: Ryosuke Kakinoki, Ryosuke Ikeguchi, Scott FM Dunkan, Ken Nakayama, Taiichi Matsumoto, Soichi Ohta and Takashi Nakamura
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:4
  42. The present study was designed to investigate the ameliorative potential of Ocimum sanctum and its saponin rich fraction in vincristine-induced peripheral neuropathic pain in rats. Peripheral neuropathy was induc...

    Authors: Gurpreet Kaur, Amteshwar Singh Jaggi and Nirmal Singh
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:3
  43. Saphenous nerve, a pure sensory nerve, may compromise as a result or complication of a surgical procedure or secondary to trauma or insidiously. We present a male patient with low back pain concomitant with pa...

    Authors: Tannaz Ahadi, Gholam Reza Raissi, Mansoureh Togha and Parisa Nejati
    Citation: Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:2