@article{ref1,
title="Type and frequency of peripheral nerve injuries encountered in a clinical neurophysiology laboratory",
journal="Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association",
year="2006",
author="Wee, A. S. and Truitt, N. R. and Smith, L. D.",
volume="47",
number="3",
pages="67-71",
abstract="Clinical and electrophysiologic findings on 136 patients (39 women and 97 men; mean age = 33.2 years) with traumatic peripheral nerve injuries were reviewed. Motor vehicular collisions (MVCs) caused 39.7% and gunshot wounds (GSWs) produced 32.4% of the nerve injuries studied. Other factors such as falls, lacerations, work-related injuries, knife wounds, and blunt traumas produced the remaining 27.9% of the nerve injuries in the study group. Peripheral nerves of the upper limbs (79.6%) were disproportionately damaged in MVCs compared with those of the lower limbs (20.4 %). In MVCs, the brachial plexus was involved in 37.0% and radial nerve in 22.2% of the cases. Patients with GSWs were predominantly men (88.6%) and slightly younger (mean age = 28.7 years). The frequencies of peripheral nerve injuries to the upper extremities (52.3%) and lower extremities (45.5%) were nearly similar in GSWs. The sciatic nerve was involved in 34.1% of GSWs, followed by the ulnar nerve (22.7%).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0026-6396",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}