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Obstetrical brachial plexus palsy is still current pathology. It occurs in 1/2000 deliveries in developed countries. Spontaneous recovery occurs only in 50% of all cases. This is justifying surgical exploration of the brachial plexus and its reparation by microsurgical techniques. This surgery can lead to 82% of good results in the upper arm paralysis of Erb-Duchenne. In paralysis of the entire arm, the results are not as good, but operative procedure usually leads to better results than that following spontaneous recovery
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Humans , Brachial Plexus/surgery , Microsurgery/methodsABSTRACT
The increase of frequency for child abuse had pushed the authors to make the portrait of this kind of children. Battered children are usually less than 3 years and they may be boys as well as girls. They usually live in a recomposed family, and they are usually battered by their mother The clinical examination may found skin, neurologic, thoraco-abdominal and osseous injuries, I and all these lesions are often multiple and of different ages. In battered children, all theses injuries have some specificities
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Humans , History of Medicine , FamilyABSTRACT
The authors report 34 cases of congenital dislocation of the hip treated by Chiari osteotomy. The average age was 9 years and the sex ratio was 1/84%. The authors used for the clinical evaluation Salter and Mackay classification, and for the radiographic evaluation Severin classification. There was 6 cases of re-dislocation due to a technical mistake. The secondary treatment of these 6 cases of dislocation leaded to a definitively result more than 90% of good evolution