BACKGROUND Axillary thoracotomy and muscle flap are muscle-and nerve-sparing methods among the surgical approaches to bronchopleural fistula(BPF).However,in patients who are vulnerable to a nerve compression injury,ne...
BACKGROUND Herpes zoster is a painful infectious disease caused by the varicella zoster virus.Herpes zoster radiculopathy,which is a type of segmental zoster paresis,can complicate the disease and cause motor weakness...
Supported by The Data Construction Learning Program for artificial intelligence(20200803-FS4T,Sector 20 Medical and Health AI Data)funded by the National Information Society Agency,Ministry of Science and ICT.
BACKGROUND Isolated musculocutaneous nerve injury is a rare condition.Herein,we report the first case of bilateral musculocutaneous neuropathy after vigorous stretching of both upper extremities with normal results of...
A number of orthopedic injuries can occur during epileptic seizures. Anterior shoulder dislocation is one such orthopedic injury that is quite rare. The shoulder dislocation may injure the brachial plexus. Besides sei...
supported by a grant from the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Peripheral Nerve and Microsurgery in China,No.14DZ2273300;the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai in China,No.13ZR1404600;a grant from the National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 Program),No.2014CB542201
Although ultrasound measurements have been used in previous studies on carpal tunnel syndrome to visualize injury to the median nerve, whether such ultrasound data can indicate the severity of carpal tunnel syndrome r...
Surgery has been reported a rare cause of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), but a recent retrospective study reported a much higher incidence rate for post-surgical patients. There are several case reports of GBS presen...
Background Cubital tunnel syndrome is a well-recognized clinical condition and is the second most common peripheral compression neuropathy. This study was designed to investigate the causes of cubital tunnel syndrome...
For diagnosiug lumbosacral radicuiopathy precisely, electromyogram(EMG),nerve conduction velocity(NCV),conventional H reflex and H reflex by nerve root stimulation were done in 79 patients with clinical symptoms and s...
Two hundred and sixty-two patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) were analyzed retrospectively. Results showed that middle-and older-age women were more apt to have CTS than men, and that the dominant hand was mor...