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Complication avoidance in peripheral nerve surgery: injuries, entrapments, and tumors of the extremities-part 2.

Russell SM, Kline DG

Department of Neurosurgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York (Russell) Department of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana (Kline).

The goal of this two-part review is to discuss peripheral nerve surgery complications, along with the techniques and principles used to prevent them. In this second article, we concentrate on injuries, tumors, and entrapment of nerves in the extremities, including carpal tunnel syndrome and ulnar nerve compression at the elbow.

Published 16 October 2006 in Neurosurgery, 59(4): ONS449-57.
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