Ukrainian Neurosurgical Journal (Jun 2005)
Сombination damage of brachial plexus and craniocerebral trauma. Peculiarity of diagnostics and clinical symptoms
Abstract
Inspection results of 348 injured persons with the close brachial plexus injury, 90 from them — combinated with craniocerebral trauma are given. Brachial plexus injury character and levels are diagnosed; the optimum medical tactics choice in a view of all mixted traumas to the present time remains difficult and complicated problem. Difficulties in diagnosis of brachial plexus close injury establishment in a combination with craniocerebral trauma consist of differential diagnostics pathogeneses infringements of top finiteness movements — the central or peripheral type of a paralysis. The clinical picture of brachial plexus closed injury peculiarities was investigated with an estimation of symptoms value and methods of inspection.