Primary Nerve Surgery
•Several recent studies
have demonstrated that children with/without nerve surgery have same
functional outcomes at age 5.
•In fact, shoulder development
has been found to be worse in those children that have been nerve
grafted.
•Nath RK,
Liu X. Nerve reconstruction in patients
with obstetric brachial
plexus injury results in worsening of glenohumeral deformity: A case
control study of 75 patients. J Bone
Joint Surg (BR), 91(B), No.
5, May 2009. 649-654.
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