brachial birth paralysis

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• upper brachial plexus paralysis — paralysis of arm muscles due to destruction of the fifth and sixth cervical roots (upper trunk of the brachial plexus); small hand muscles are unaffected. When due to birth trauma it is called Erb Duchenne p …   Medical dictionary

• lower brachial plexus paralysis — atrophic paralysis of the muscles of the forearm and hand due to lesions of the eighth cervical or first dorsal nerve (lower trunk of the brachial plexus). When due to birth trauma it is called Klumpke Dejerine p …   Medical dictionary

• Erb-Duchenne paralysis — upper brachial plexus paralysis caused by birth injury; called also Erb or Erb Duchenne palsy; Duchenne, Duchenne Erb, or Erb p.; and Duchenne Erb syndrome. Erb Duchenne paralysis caused by traction injury to C5–C7 spinal cord segments, with… …   Medical dictionary

• Klumpke paralysis — Klumpke Dejerine paralysis lower brachial plexus paralysis caused by birth injury, particularly during breech deliveries; called also Dejerine Klumpke or Klumpke Dejerine syndrome …   Medical dictionary

• Klumpke paralysis — Klumpke s paralysis Classification and external resources Brachial plexus. Klumpke paralysis primarily affects C8 and T1. ICD 10 P …   Wikipedia

• Klumpke's paralysis — Klump·ke s paralysis klümp kēz n atrophic paralysis of the forearm and the hand due to injury to the eighth cervical and first thoracic nerves Dé·jé·rine Klump·ke dā zhā rēn klüm kē Augusta (1859 1927) French neurologist. Déjérine Klumpke was a… …   Medical dictionary

• Preterm birth — Classification and external resources Intubated preterm baby in an incubator ICD 10 O …   Wikipedia

• Klumpke's paralysis — a partial paralysis of the arm caused by injury to a baby s brachial plexus during birth. This may result from an obstetric manoeuvre in which the arm is raised at the shoulder to an extreme degree, which damages the lower cervical (neck) and… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Palsy — Paralysis, generally partial, whereby a local body area is incapable of voluntary movement (motor function). For example, Bell’s palsy is localized paralysis of the muscles on one side of the face. The word “palsy” is a corruption (and… …   Medical dictionary

• Joseph Jules Dejerine — (August 3, 1849 ndash; February 26 1917), was a French neurologist.Joseph Jules Dejerine was born to French parents in Geneva, Switzerland, where his father was a carriage proprietor. During the Franco Prussian War (1870) Dejerine worked as a… …   Wikipedia

• syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary