Accessory nerve palsy.
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Accessory nerve palsy.
After apparently uncomplicated excision of benign lesions in the posterior cervical triangle, two patients had shoulder pain. In one, neck pain and trapezius weakness were not prominent until one month after surgery. Inability to elevate the arm above the horizontal without externally rotating it, and prominent scapular displacement on arm abduction, but not on forward pushing movements, highli...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.40.11.1113