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Brachial Plexus Birth Injuries

Orthopedic Clinics of North America, 2022
Brachial plexus birth injuries (BPBIs) are typically traction type injuries to the newborn that occur during the delivery process. Although the incidence of these injuries has overall decreased from 1.5 to around 0.9 per 1000 live births in the United States over the past 2 decades, these injuries remain common, with incidence holding fairly steady ...
Julie Balch Samora, James S Lin
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Brachial Plexus Birth Injury: A Single-Center Study

Clinical Pediatrics, 2023
Infants can sustain traction injury to brachial plexus nerves during birth, called brachial plexus birth injury (BPBI). While spontaneous recovery is possible, upper extremity weakness can linger. We report our experience at a brachial plexus clinic from a retrospective chart review of infants with BPBI from September 2017 to ...
Andrew Gienapp, Elena Caron
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Brachial Plexus Birth Injury: Mechanism of Injury

2021
The leading theory regarding the mechanism of brachial plexus birth injury suggests mechanical traction to the brachial plexus due to stretching of the space between an infant’s neck and shoulder. Given that there is no single factor associated with all cases, this is likely a wide spectrum of etiologies.
Apurva S Shah
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