👶🏻 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)

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