👶🏻 Pediatrics: brachial plexus injuries Flashcards
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Erb’s Palsy (Waiter’s tip)
more proximal C5, C6 and at time C7
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Pediatrics: brachial plexus injuries
__________palsy affects the muscles of the hand and the sensation of the medial arm.
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Klumpke’s
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Pediatrics: brachial plexus injuries
The hand is held in a claw position of extension of the metacarpal phalangeal joints and flexion of distal, intra, and proximal phalangeal joint. The thumb is in abduction.
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Klumpke’s palsy affects the muscles of the hand and the sensation of the medial arm.
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Klumpke’s palsy C-8 & T1
low brachial plexus (distal injuries)